Re: emergency outage requiring database restart

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: emergency outage requiring database restart
Date: 2016-10-17 19:21:31
Message-ID: 20161017192131.q6zkgcbrkplrwsml@alvherre.pgsql
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Merlin Moncure wrote:

> We had several good backups since the previous outage so it's not
> clear the events are related but after months of smooth operation I
> find that coincidence highly suspicious. As always, we need to suspect
> hardware problems but I'm highly abstracted from them -- using esx +
> san.

Ah, so you're subject not only to hardware flaws but also to
virtualization layer bugs :-)

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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