Re: need for in-place upgrades (was Re: State of Beta 2) - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 10:52:45AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

> So instead of 1TB of 15K fiber channel disks (and the requisite
> controllers, shelves, RAID overhead, etc), we'd need *two* TB of
> 15K fiber channel disks (and the requisite controllers, shelves,
> RAID overhead, etc) just for the 1 time per year when we'd upgrade
> PostgreSQL?

Nope.  You also need it for the time when your vendor sells
controllers or chips or whatever with known flaws, and you end up
having hardware that falls over 8 or 9 times in a row.

A

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