> > > * Instantaneous crash recovery.
> > 
> >     Because  this never worked reliable, Vadim is working on WAL.
> 
> Postgres recovery is not reliable?

Yes. It's possible to lose indices...
There is paper how to avoid this, somewhere in Berkeley' site.
As I remember, additional TID per index tuple is required and
this is complex.

Vadim

Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:53:09 -0700
"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>
RE: Storage Manager (was postgres 7.2 features.)