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Responses Re: PostgreSQL Data Loss  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
Re: PostgreSQL Data Loss  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
Re: PostgreSQL Data Loss  ("J. Andrew Rogers" <jrogers@neopolitan.com>)
Re: PostgreSQL Data Loss  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Re: PostgreSQL Data Loss  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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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.

Could it be possible for PostgreSQL to lose its data? Maybe with a file 
corruption? Could it be possible to restore these data?

My program does not modify or delete data since its more like a log that 
only adds information. It is obviously possible to delete these logs but 
it requires to answer "yes" to 2 different warnings, so the data can't 
be deleted accidentally.

I have other customers with even 10 times the amount of data of the one 
who claimed the loss but no problems with them.
He obviously made no backups (and claims whe never told him to do them 
so we are responsible even for this) though the program has a dedicated 
Backup-section.

Any suggestion?

Daniele


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