From: Medi Montaseri <montaseri@gmail.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Steve Holdoway <steve.holdoway@firetrust.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: what happend to my database
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:57:32 -0700
Message-ID: <8078a1730806101257m38fd1232nce7ae71870ee5de2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Medi Montaseri <montaseri@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Yes, this type of presumptuous behavior to wipe out a production database
> > based on a few checks is too risky...
> >
> > Behavior one:
> > First out-of-box time, pg_ctl does not find any database files, it tells
> the
> > user that "sorry I did not find any database to start....see initdb....
> > Result: we have a semi-unhappy user/admin that says... what is initdb
> >
> > Behavior two:
> > In order to enhance the out-of-box experience, we have wiped out a
> > production environment, leading to many unhappy staff and customers....
> >
> > PG developers...I am not impressed at all...
>
> In defense of the pg developers, the behaviour you describe was
> removed long ago BECAUSE of the issues you mention.
>
> The fact is that pg developers can't police every distro out there to
> make sure they've removed such hinky behaviour from their startup
> scripts. So, the persons to NOT be impressed with at all are the
> folks who maintain your OS's postgresql packaging, not the pg
> developers.
stand corrected
>
> Course, you can always switch to MySQL, or Oracle, or MSSQL where
> nothing like that ever happens. uh huh.
Never...I rather stay and fix it...than run away to a different country
Thanks
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