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PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 High Performance - Third Edition

by Enrico Pirozzi
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
508 pages
15h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Drive error handling

Just because it's possible to buy really inexpensive SATA drives and get good performance from them, that doesn't necessarily mean you want to put them in a database server. It doesn't matter how fast your system normally runs at if a broken hard drive has taken it down and made the server unusable.

The first step towards reliable hard drive operation is for the drive to accurately report the errors it does run into. This happens through two mechanisms: error codes reported during read and write operations, and drive status reporting through the SMART protocol. SMART provides all sorts of information about your drive, such as its temperature and the results of any self-tests that have been run.

When they find bad data, ...

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