Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)

From: Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Humor me: Postgresql vs. MySql (esp. licensing)
Date: 2003-10-09 17:30:46
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>>>>> "SD" == Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in> writes:

SD> Do a shutdown -h on a live database machine with pg. It will
SD> gracefully shut itself down.

I think it is a timing issue. The PG has no way to notify the OS that
it has finished exiting, so if it takes a long time to exit, the OS
will ungracefully kill the DB process(es). Doesn't matter what DB (or
any other application) you're running, you *can* lose data this way.

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