Re: Help me recovering data

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Kouber Saparev <postgresql(at)saparev(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Help me recovering data
Date: 2005-02-16 16:24:02
Message-ID: 20050216082123.O46613@megazone.bigpanda.com
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com wrote:

> >
> > Once autovacuum gets to the point where it's used by default, this
> > particular failure mode should be a thing of the past, but in the
> > meantime I'm not going to panic about it.
>
> I don't know how to say this without sounding like a jerk, (I guess that's
> my role sometimes) but would you go back and re-read this sentence?
>
> To paraphrase: "I know this causes a catestrophic data loss, and we have
> plans to fix it in the future, but for now, I'm not going panic about it."

Do you have a useful suggestion about how to fix it? "Stop working" is
handwaving and merely basically saying, "one of you people should do
something about this" is not a solution to the problem, it's not even an
approach towards a solution to the problem.

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