On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> cb <cb@mythtech.net> wrote:
>> On Nov 16, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> Make sure you're not in the line of fire when (not if) that version
>>> eats your data. Particularly on Windows, insisting on not
>>> upgrading that version is unbelievably, irresponsibly stupid.
>>> There are a *large* number of known bugs.
>>
>>
>> I hear ya, and have agreed with you for a long while. There is a
>> fairly regular and constant fight in house over the issue of
>> upgrading. We get hit on a regular basis with problems that as far
>> as I know are bugs that have been fixed (transaction log rename
>> crashes that take down PG, as well as queries just vanishing into
>> the aether at times of heavy load resulting in hung threads in our
>> Tomcat front end as it waits for something to come back that has
>> disappeared).
>
> If you could track down some unmodified 1971 Ford Pintos, you could
> give them some perspective by having them drive those until they
> upgrade.
And they all get 1993 era Pentium 60s with 32 Megs of RAM running
windows 3.11 for workgroups and using the trumpet TCP stack.
Upgrades, who needs 'em?!
