From: | David Garamond <lists(at)zara(dot)6(dot)isreserved(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: serverless postgresql |
Date: | 2004-01-15 06:18:43 |
Message-ID: | 400630C3.9070502@zara.6.isreserved.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Jeff Bowden <jlb(at)houseofdistraction(dot)com> writes:
>
>>That makes sense to me. I wonder if sqlite suffers for this problem
>>(e.g. app crashing and corrupting the database).
>
> Likely. I can tell you that Ann Harrison once told me she made a decent
> amount of money as a consultant fixing broken Interbase/Firebird
> database files. It would be hard to make a living in the same game for
> Postgres. Now I don't think that Firebird is any buggier than Postgres.
> But it comes in an embedded-library form; I'll bet lunch that most of
> those data corruption problems were actually induced by crashes of
> surrounding applications.
Do the developers generally oppose the idea of a threaded (but
non-embedded) backend as well? If the backend is thread-safe, then users
can still choose to run multiprocess or multithreaded right?
--
dave
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