Re: quick review - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: quick review
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Msg-id 200611212115.kALLFj127939@momjian.us
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In response to Re: quick review  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: quick review  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 21:50 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Molle Bestefich wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > First time PostgreSQL user.
> > > 
> > > Here's a review of my experience so far.
> > > 
> > > 1.) Reading the manual
> > > 
> > > Looks good feature-wise, but there's a suspicious lack of reference to
> > > any kind of repair utility for damaged data files.  Hmm.  I've been
> > > using computers for long enough that I know that in the real world
> > > there's no such thing as "data corruption doesn't occur", so it's
> > > rather suspicious.
> > 
> > Unless you have buggy hardware, there is no need for a repair tool. 
> > That is our position.
> 
> And when I mentioned that to two of my largest customers, they both
> looked at me like I had lost my mind.
> 
> Something to think about.

My assumption is that they are used to buggy software that has bugs
unfixed for years, and the repair tools are the answer to that, no?

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