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From: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
Cc: NbForYou <nbforyou@hotmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Process Time X200
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:11:25 -0600
Message-ID: <20060314201125.GR45250@pervasive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1142009216.6249.37.camel@state.g2switchworks.com>
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:46:56AM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> I think it's time to get a new hosting provider.
> 
> If they're still running PostgreSQL 7.3.9 (the latest 7.3 is 7.3.14, and
> 8.1.3 is amazingly faster than 7.3.anything...) then they're likely not
> updating other vital components either, and therefore it's only a matter
> of time before your machine gets hacked.

Or you lose data. IIRC there have been some data-loss bugs fixed between
7.3.9 and 7.3.14.
-- 
Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant      jnasby@pervasive.com
Pervasive Software      http://pervasive.com    work: 512-231-6117
vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf       cell: 512-569-9461



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