| From: | Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> |
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| To: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com>, Geert Mak <pobox(at)verysmall(dot)org>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: "Too far out of the mainstream" |
| Date: | 2012-09-04 21:13:09 |
| Message-ID: | 50466EE5.1030900@archidevsys.co.nz |
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On 05/09/12 08:38, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Gavin Flower
> <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> wrote:
>> On 05/09/12 05:35, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>> I have read to emails to one of the postgresql lists,
>> where people in companies with 1000's of databases had
>> power failures and only the postgresql databases
>> restarted without special recovery actions required.
>> The other databases mentioned were Oracle, MySql, and
>> SQL Server.
> That was likely me, tho it wasn't thousands, it was somewhere near 100
> or so. It was more a case of the other DBAs not doing their due
> diligence and testing their hardware back 10 or so years ago, when
> hard drives and RAID controllers often lied about fsync.
I fairly certain the 2 emails were from different people, and I read
them within the last 12 (6?) months.
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