Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Server unreliability

Chris? Some extra error checking needed, maybe?

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004, Gavin Sherry wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>
>>> about pg_query not getting a good connection or similar problems.
>>> Isn't normal advice to check return codes before even trying to use the
>>> connections? Why isn't this done in the main postgresql.org code, where
>>> anyone can see it, is beyond me. Of course the solution to the
>>> underlying problem is to restart the Postgres server, but why should we
>>> inform the user that Postgres' own database server is down, in the worst
>>> possible way?
>>
>> Just curious here, but when/where? We haven't had a database issue in
>> quite awhile that *I'm* aware of ... in fact, the whole web site is
>> static, generated periodically from .php files, so that the mirrors can
>> pick things up properly, so there should never be a 'cannot connect to
>> database' issue, since there are no connections to the database being made
>
> I know this isn't on the main site but:
>
> http://www.alcove.com.au/~swm/gborg.png
>
> Gavin
>

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