Re: Data loss, vacuum, transaction wrap-around

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: lsunley(at)mb(dot)sympatico(dot)ca
Cc: Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com, Russell Smith <mr-russ(at)pws(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Data loss, vacuum, transaction wrap-around
Date: 2005-02-19 20:13:48
Message-ID: 20050219201348.GA26666@wolff.to
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 13:35:25 -0500,
lsunley(at)mb(dot)sympatico(dot)ca wrote:
>
> The catastrophic failure of the database because a maintenence function is
> not performed is a problem with the software, not with the people using
> it.

There doesn't seem to be disagreement that something should be done going
forward.

The disagreement sems to be what effort should be made in back porting
fixes to previous versions.

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