On Thu, 22 May 2003, Steve King wrote:
> Is postgres 7.2.1 safe if there is a power fail.
> The system is running 24/7/365 and I have had occassional problems with
> duplicate records including oids. This happened in two different tables at
> the same time, it seems to have appeared immediately after a power (and ups)
> fail. Is it a known problem with power fail or is this just a coincidence. I
> have tried to scour the maillists and docs but cannot find a definitive
> answer to this.
There are known data loss issues in 7.2.1. Whether these led to this
problem I do not know.
You should upgrade immediately to 7.2.4.