Re: PITR Dead horse?

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Nicolai Tufar [mailto:ntufar(at)pisem(dot)net]
> > > Sent: 05 February 2004 00:01
> > > To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PITR Dead horse?
> > >
> > > Totally agree. Robustness and rock-solidness are the only
> > > things missing for PostgreSQL to become the killer of certain
> > > commercial enterprise databases out there.
> >
> > Well I've only been using PostgreSQL since 1997 and the *only* release I
> > ever had problems with was 6.3.2. We also use(d) Informix SE, DB2,
> > Unidata and SQL Server and only Informix and Unidata come close to the
> > robustness of PostgreSQL - and they're not the ones we need to worry
> > about.
> >
> > Now I'm not saying we shouldn't be continually looking to improve
> > things, but I don't think this is quite the problem you imply.
>
> I assume he was talking about the lack of data recovery in cases of hard
> drive failure --- we now require you restore from backup or use a
> replicated machine/drive setup.

I retract this email. He clearly was talking about PostgreSQL
reliability, and Dave is right, it is pretty much a non-issue, though
maybe mindshare needs some help.

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