Re: emergency outage requiring database restart - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: emergency outage requiring database restart
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Msg-id 20161017192131.q6zkgcbrkplrwsml@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: emergency outage requiring database restart  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: emergency outage requiring database restart  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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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 :-)

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