Re: How to simulate crashes of PostgreSQL? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: How to simulate crashes of PostgreSQL?
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Msg-id b42b73150908250849u560f20d4t430fda1f3449825@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: How to simulate crashes of PostgreSQL?  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Scott Marlowe<scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane<greg@turnstep.com> wrote:
>> A server crash is a pretty rare event in the Postgres world, so I
>> would not spend too many cycles on this...
>
> I've been running pg in production since 7.0 came out.  zero server crashes.

I've found a few...I discovered the aggregate problem in 8.4.  I also
co-discovered the prepared query/alter table that can trivially crash
any pg server up to 8.2.

merlin

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