Re: Help me recovering data

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Help me recovering data
Date: 2005-02-17 01:58:53
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Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com wrote:
>
>
>>>Once autovacuum gets to the point where it's used by default, this
>>>particular failure mode should be a thing of the past, but in the
>>>meantime I'm not going to panic about it.
>>
>>I don't know how to say this without sounding like a jerk, (I guess that's
>>my role sometimes) but would you go back and re-read this sentence?
>>
>>To paraphrase: "I know this causes a catestrophic data loss, and we have
>>plans to fix it in the future, but for now, I'm not going panic about it."
>
>
> Do you have a useful suggestion about how to fix it? "Stop working" is
> handwaving and merely basically saying, "one of you people should do
> something about this" is not a solution to the problem, it's not even an
> approach towards a solution to the problem.

Is not a solution but between loose data and shutdown the postmaster I
prefer the shutdown.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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