Re: "Too far out of the mainstream" - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: "Too far out of the mainstream"
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In response to "Too far out of the mainstream"  (Andy Yoder <ayoder@airfacts.com>)
Responses Re: "Too far out of the mainstream"  (Geert Mak <pobox@verysmall.org>)
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On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Gavin Flower
<GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz> wrote:
> On 05/09/12 08:38, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Gavin Flower
> <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz> wrote:
>
> On 05/09/12 05:35, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> I have read to emails to one of the postgresql lists,
> where people in companies with 1000's of databases had
> power failures and only the postgresql databases
> restarted without special recovery actions required.
> The other databases mentioned were Oracle, MySql, and
> SQL Server.
>
> That was likely me, tho it wasn't thousands, it was somewhere near 100
> or so.  It was more a case of the other DBAs not doing their due
> diligence and testing their hardware back 10 or so years ago, when
> hard drives and RAID controllers often lied about fsync.
>
> I fairly certain the 2 emails were from different people, and I read them
> within the last 12 (6?) months.

I may well have written about it in the last 6 to 12 months, that
doesn't mean it happened in the last 6 to 12 months.


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