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From: Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@dalibo.com>
To: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Query caching (with 8.3)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:32:06 +0100
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On 12/17/2013 09:09 AM, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> On 17/12/2013 01:21, Vik Fearing wrote:
>> On 12/16/2013 11:58 AM, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
>>> postgresql 8.3 (upgrading is not an option for the moment)
>> When your version is no longer getting security fixes and data
>> corruption fixes, upgrading is not only an option but a duty.
>>
>> Please upgrade to at least 9.0  (8.4 will be EOL too soon for the effort
>> to be worthwhile).
>>
>
> We run several versions of PostgreSQL (on shore and at sea) and if you
> search the archives you will see that we are one of the
> first to deploy PostgreSQL in a commercial marine environment (since
> 2001), and also to develop our own version of DBMirror specifically
> tailored for marine/satellite communications, to provide FK-dependency
> oriented, row grained, Conditional, Asynchronous,
> Lazy replication solution.
> Since you mention it, this is installed on about 90 vessels at sea,
> and if we assume 3000 EUR (tickets only) for a
> trained person to get on board and perform the upgrade, this amounts
> to 270,000 EUR.

That's nice.  How much is the data worth?

-- 
Vik



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