Re: PostgreSQL data loss - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Harpreet Dhaliwal
Subject Re: PostgreSQL data loss
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Msg-id d86a77ef0701281645k322cdc9at94ed1f894b565845@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL data loss  ("Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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While making POC (proof of concept) for any project, we clearly mention at the end of the document that loss of data is not going to be our responsibility and thats how we guys save our ass right in the begening. What happened with you has happened with us many a times but our bold and italicized lines about data loss have always saved us. I suggest you something like this for your future projects.
Hope this helps.
Regards

 
On 1/28/07, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/26/07, BluDes <DESPAMMAMIdarocchi@perfavoretiscali.it > wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>   I have a problem with one of my costomers.
> I made a program that uses a PostgreSQL (win32) database to save its data.
> My customer claims that he lost lots of data reguarding his own clients
> and that those data had surely been saved on the database.
> My first guess is that he is the one who deleted the data but wants to
> blame someone else, obviously I can't prove it.

I've been working with PostgreSQL since early 7.1 on dozens of
projects and I've had maybe two or three cases of data corruption that
were not explained by hardware failure or something like that (and
even these cases were debatable since I was not in direct control of
the server).  Both of those cases had side effects...the corruption
busted something else which sent immediate red flags that something
was wrong.

I think your customer is CYA.

merlin

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