Re: URGENT - startup process (PID 29541) was terminated by signal 6

Hello Tom,

* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, [2006-10-06 15:16 -0400]:
>  Um, were you running with full_page_writes off?  Bad idea in 8.1 :-( ...

The manual [1] says that full_page_writes is ignored and always treated
as if it was set to on. Is it wrong?

ciao,
    ema

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/runtime-config-wal.html#GUC-FULL-PAGE-WRITES