Re: Geni outage - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Geni outage
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Msg-id 4E3ACEE9.5080104@agliodbs.com
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In response to Geni outage  (Leif Biberg Kristensen <leif@solumslekt.org>)
Responses Re: Geni outage  (Leif Biberg Kristensen <leif@solumslekt.org>)
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On 8/4/11 8:50 AM, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote:
> http://www.geni.com/blog/last-weekends-outage-368211.html
>
> It's interesting that they're using PostgreSQL, but I wonder what really
> happened.

My guess is either administrator error or they aren't running a fully
patched version.  However, they could have discovered a new bug; I'd
imagine that they have some really huge GiST indexes.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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