Re: PITR Dead horse? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Rod Taylor
Subject Re: PITR Dead horse?
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Msg-id 1075990378.308.410.camel@jester
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In response to Re: PITR Dead horse?  ("Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>)
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> > Don't know. But apparently different users will have
> > different demands From a database.
>
> Of course, but I would argue that my claim that PostgreSQL is reliable
> is backed up by the lack of people posting messages like 'we had a
> powercut and now my DB is hosed'.

One thing we could use (and I have no idea how to do it) is a "This
hardware is not appropriate for a database" test kit.

Something to detect lying disks, battery backed write cache that isn't
so battery backed, etc.

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Rod Taylor <rbt [at] rbt [dot] ca>

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