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

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: emergency outage requiring database restart
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Msg-id CAB7nPqRfunvtNLJwR86VRij7Ts8BX_-Ta8=LOiQOpyM53DTo8g@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: emergency outage requiring database restart  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: emergency outage requiring database restart  (Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>)
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> 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 :-)

Wait a couple of more years, and we'll get more complains about
Postgres running in containers running in VMs. Even more fun waiting
ahead.
-- 
Michael



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