Re: Is my lecturer wrong about PostgreSQL? I think he is!

On 09/10/2019 20:45, Alan Hodgson wrote:
> Assuming you're not a troll ...
>
> On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 20:06 +0100, Pól Ua Laoínecháin wrote:
>> 1) Is my lecturer full of it or does he really have a point?
> He's more than full of it. PostgreSQL has had a few bugs over the year
> that could have resulted in data corruption, but they're pretty rare
> and fixed as soon as they're found. PostgreSQL is the most reliable
> software I run, and virtually the only major piece I don't hesitate to
> upgrade without waiting to see what bugs other people find first.
>> 4) What is the OS of choice for *_serious_* PostgreSQL installations?
> That's a religious question, not a technical question. I think even
> Microsoft makes a decent server OS nowadays. But I expect a large
> majority of PostgreSQL installations are running on Linux, as are the
> vast majority of all server apps nowadays. Having said that, I don't
> run a "serious" PostgreSQL installation; some of the people here run
> databases that do tens of thousands of TPS and hold many TiB of data.
> You'd have to ask them I guess.

Pretty sure if you run through Oracle's back catalogue you'll find a
similar data corruption for an entirely unrelated reason. Just guessing
but chances are....

Tim Clarke

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