| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Heavily fragmented table and index data in 8.0.3 |
| Date: | 2008-06-12 16:02:17 |
| Message-ID: | 1213286537.11470.49.camel@jd-laptop |
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On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 11:56 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:31:37PM +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
>
> > Hardware is from Sun, not a grocery store PC, so I don't suppose it to
> > be faulty.
>
> FWIW, I had a pair of E4500s in one job that I would _happily_ have
> traded for any beige box you care to mention. Heck, at the end I
> mighta traded them for a lump of pig iron, they were so flakey.
> Having "Sun" on the outside in no way protects you from faulty
> hardware.
Considering that a lot Sun hardware is just rebranded newsys (newisys?)
I wouldn't put too much stock in the old "It's name brand" either. That
is in no way to suggest that newsys is a bad vendor, just that Sun is
just re-branding too.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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