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From: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: 8.3.5 broken after power fail
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:08:21 +0100
Message-ID: <200902171208.25462@zmi.at> (raw)

> 1st line of defense is to set your system to shutdown normally when
> the power button is pressed. 2nd line of defense is to get your self
> a decent UPS unit

I have both. She managed to switch off behind the UPS :-)
 
> Also at work at more than 20 tanker vessels running 7.4.2, the
> captains do that on a constant basis and PgSQL always has survived
> (more than the rest of the system anyways..)

Even with a XEN vm running PostgreSQL? Both on XFS with nobarrier mount 
option? Try it, it's fun ;-)

mfg zmi
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