Re: Duplicate rows sneaking in despite PRIMARY KEY / UNIQUE

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:58:10PM -0400, Travis Cross wrote:
> >Do you *know* that the disk drive will not lie about write
> >complete?
> 
> "Know" is such a strong word ;)  Honestly, I have very little idea. 
>  I understand the nature of the problem this presents, as I've read 
> the very fine PostgreSQL manual many times over the years.
> 
> Because the drives I use are specifically designed to operate well 
> in a RAID environment, I would 'hope' that the drives perform honest 
> write operations.
> 
> I wonder if there is a utility to perform a deterministic test of 
> this...

Brad from livejournal.com wrote a utility that does just that, thought
it requires 2 machines to run the test.
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