Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7521337B92 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:57:13 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 88115-01-2 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:57:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from smtp-1.01.com (smtp-1.01.com [38.102.63.180]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2408E1337B82 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:57:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-1.01.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF9E3644EF for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:57:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: from smtp-1.01.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp-1.01.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MO0dTwWBa184 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:57:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: by smtp-1.01.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id 60EB43644CE; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:57:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: from Sidney-Stratton.local (70-36-143-243.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net [70.36.143.243]) by smtp-1.01.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2BB3F3644EF for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:57:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4DB70770.1030403@agliodbs.com> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:57:04 -0700 From: Josh Berkus Organization: PostgreSQL Experts Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Time to put theory to the test? References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201104/361 X-Sequence-Number: 43423 J, > Long story short, every single PostgreSQL machine survived the failure > with *zero* data corruption. I had a few issues with SQL Server > machines, and virtually every MySQL machine has required data cleanup > and table scans and tweaks to get it back to "production" status. Can I quote you on this? I'll need name/company. And, thank you for posting that regardless ... -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com