Tom Lane wrote:
>pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com writes:
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>>Maybe I'm missing something, but shouldn't the prospect of data loss (even
>>in the presense of admin ignorance) be something that should be
>>unacceptable? Certainly within the realm "normal PostgreSQL" operation.
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>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.
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Which I hope will be soon.