Re: Big problem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andreas Pflug
Subject Re: Big problem
Date
Msg-id 40B28224.8050802@pse-consulting.de
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Big problem  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Responses Re: Big problem  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
List pgsql-hackers
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>> The mistake has only come up two or three times that I can remember,
>> which doesn't elevate it to the category of stuff that I want to install
>> a lot of mechanism to prevent.  Especially not mechanism that would get
>> in the way of reasonable uses.  I think it's sufficient to have a
>> recovery procedure.
>
>
> Hmmm - I agree it's difficult, but somehow I think it's something we 
> should do.  Just imagine if some major user of postgres did it - 
> they'd be screaming blue murder...

IMHO we (that is Christopher, me and others maintaining easy to (mis)use 
tools) should warn the users about what they're going to do.

Regards,
Andreas




pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Gaetano Mendola
Date:
Subject: Re: Optimizer bug??
Next
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: New horology failure