On 18/10/16 14:12, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> Merlin Moncure wrote:
>>
>>> We had several good backups since the previous outage so it's not
>>> clear the events are related but after months of smooth operation I
>>> find that coincidence highly suspicious. As always, we need to suspect
>>> hardware problems but I'm highly abstracted from them -- using esx +
>>> san.
>> Ah, so you're subject not only to hardware flaws but also to
>> virtualization layer bugs :-)
> Wait a couple of more years, and we'll get more complains about
> Postgres running in containers running in VMs. Even more fun waiting
> ahead.
that started life on different hardware with a different O/S
