Scott,
If you feel it is necessary to apologize for such a minor infraction of polite etiquette please come on over to
Oracle-L. We have harshness 10 times greater. Probably because there are so many practioners and so many different
pointsof view. We call them "Holy Wars". The current blazing one is on RAID, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
BTW: From a Holy War on Oracle-L of similar topic. There is a difference on how bad that lying IDE drive is
dependingon who the vendor is, what system it's plugged into, and what OS is being used. Some do a better job than
othersof "covering up" the lies. The other chap may have one of those better systems, so from his point of view it's
"oldfashioned misinformation". Doesn't mean it's not true, just covered up better. Kind of like "Air Freshener".
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: scott.marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@ihs.com]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 4:37 PM
To: matt@ymogen.net
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] hanging for 30sec when checkpointing
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 matt@ymogen.net wrote:
> >
> > If you're gonna accuse me of lying, you damned well better have the balls
> > AND evidence to back it up.
> >
>
> Wow. Scott, all traffic to the admin list has ceased since you posted
> this, we are shocked!
>
> You put a lot of effort into finding the root of the 'mysteriously good
> IDE performance' issue last year, and did so with great professionalism
> and thoroughness, so it's understandable that this chap's comments would
> upset you.
>
> If he doesn't have the wit to respond then he's just a troll anyway.
Well, I still feel I should apologize for my harshness on a public list.
I could have at least taken that one private. But you are right, I did
spend a lot of my time chasing down the IDE issues, so to be so flippantly
accused of spreading misinformation rankled me abit.
So, to anyone on the admin list that was offended, I apologize...
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