Re: Possible causes for database corruption and solutions

On 16/12/2009 6:41 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Craig Ringer:
>> When you're dealing with end users who have machines running
>> god-knows-what kinds of awful hardware drivers
>
> Even Mac OS X? There should be less variety.

Of disk and other critical drivers, sure.

There is, however, a huge variety of horrible drivers for add-on devices
from TV-in cards to NERF missile launchers. The one thing common among
these drivers is: bugs. Driver bugs can bring down an OS X machine with
a pretty kernel panic, just like most other systems, and to Pg there's
no difference between a kernel panic caused by the TV-in card and a
power failure or crash in core OS components.

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Craig Ringer