On 11/17/2010 02:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> [ forgot to comment on this part ]
>
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> To answer another point I see Tom made on the -general list: while
>> individual backends may crash from time to time, crashes of the whole
>> Postgres server are very rare in my experience in production
>> environments.
> Well, if you mean the postmaster darn near never goes down, that's true,
> because we go out of our way to ensure it does as little as possible.
> But that has got zip to do with this discussion, because a backend crash
> has to be assumed to have corrupted unlogged tables. There are some
> folk over in -general who are wishfully thinking that only a postmaster
> crash would lose their unlogged data, but that's simply wrong. Backend
> crashes *will* truncate those tables; there is no way around that. The
> comment I made was that my experience as to how often backends crash
> might not square with production experience --- but you do have to draw
> the distinction between a backend crash and a postmaster crash.
OK. I'd missed that. Thanks for clarifying.
cheers
andrew