On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> about pg_query not getting a good connection or similar problems.
> Isn't normal advice to check return codes before even trying to use the
> connections? Why isn't this done in the main postgresql.org code, where
> anyone can see it, is beyond me. Of course the solution to the
> underlying problem is to restart the Postgres server, but why should we
> inform the user that Postgres' own database server is down, in the worst
> possible way?
Just curious here, but when/where? We haven't had a database issue in
quite awhile that *I'm* aware of ... in fact, the whole web site is
static, generated periodically from .php files, so that the mirrors can
pick things up properly, so there should never be a 'cannot connect to
database' issue, since there are no connections to the database being made
...
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