Re: postgres crash SOS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:20 PM
> To: Dann Corbit
> Cc: Felde Norbert; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org; Scott Marlowe
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] postgres crash SOS
>
> Dann Corbit <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com> writes:
> >> (Personally I'd never run a database I cared about on Windows.)
>
> > Somehow, I doubt that Windows is to blame. For instance, Oracle and
> SQL*Server seem to run fine on Windows without this sort of problem.
>
> Really? Are you front-line support for either, so that you can say
> that they "never" have this sort of problem on the basis of any actual
> evidence? Our failure rate on Windows is probably pretty low too,
> it's just that we only hear about non-working cases here.

I have worked as a DBA for large farms of database systems.

> (Perhaps more to the point, if they don't have problems, it's likely
> because they tell their customers how to configure Windows boxes safely
> before the fact. And people who are spending the money for an Oracle
> license will heed that advice.)
>

Care was taken in selection of hardware and configuration. Is this different for any database system?