Re: PostgreSQL over NFS?

> The part about cache incoherency is very true, the _only_ cache coherency
> NFS offers is _only_ in the v3 spec, and is specifically called 'wcc'
> 'weak cache coherency' (afaik).  So yes, you can expect differnent
> NFS clients to get different inconsistant views on heavily modified
> files unless they use advisory locking (which should fsync out locked
> ranges before release).
>
> Anyhow, if the idea is just to get a nice backup system, you could
> do a pg_dump and write the output to a NFS mounted FS, there's probably
> less that can go wrong with a large sequencial write than heavy shared
> read/write/seek.

Or just rsh over to the database system and pipe the output back to the
'backup' machine.

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