Re: New server to improve performance on our large and busy DB - advice? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: New server to improve performance on our large and busy DB - advice?
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Msg-id 20100121155151.GA3423@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: New server to improve performance on our large and busy DB - advice?  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: New server to improve performance on our large and busy DB - advice?  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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Scott Marlowe escribió:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Carlo Stonebanks
> <stonec.register@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> > 4) Is this the right PG version for our needs?
>
> 8.3 is very stable.  Update to the latest.  8.4 seems good, but I've
> had, and still am having, problems with it crashing in production.
> Not often, maybe once every couple of months, but just enough that I'm
> not ready to try and use it there yet.  And I can't force the same
> failure in testing, at least not yet.

uh.  Is there a report of the crash somewhere with details, say stack
traces and such?

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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