Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Server unreliability

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> > about pg_query not getting a good connection or similar problems.
> > Isn't normal advice to check return codes before even trying to use the
> > connections? Why isn't this done in the main postgresql.org code, where
> > anyone can see it, is beyond me. Of course the solution to the
> > underlying problem is to restart the Postgres server, but why should we
> > inform the user that Postgres' own database server is down, in the worst
> > possible way?
>
> Just curious here, but when/where? We haven't had a database issue in
> quite awhile that *I'm* aware of ... in fact, the whole web site is
> static, generated periodically from .php files, so that the mirrors can
> pick things up properly, so there should never be a 'cannot connect to
> database' issue, since there are no connections to the database being made

I know this isn't on the main site but:

http://www.alcove.com.au/~swm/gborg.png

Gavin