From: "Ligia Pimentel" <pimentel_ligia@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with version 7.1, could they be fixed in 7.2?
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:38:41 -0500
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Ok. Got It.  I thought  that would help, also.
Thanks.

Ligia
"Stephan Szabo" <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Ligia Pimentel wrote:
>
> > I've been having problems with a database in postgres 7.1, this database
> > worked just fine for about 6 months, but it is a fast growing database
(a
> > lot of records inserted every day, almost none deleted).
> >
> > The problem is that the database started corrupting indexes, and tables
> > (even system tables, like pg_class). I posted my questions previously
with
> > the specific messages, but sadly I got no reply :(...
> >
> > I recovered a backup and installed it on another computer to verify that
it
> > was not a hardware problem, but I kept having crashes every week.
> >
> > Last week I decided to install a new computer with postgres 7.2 and I
loaded
> > the database on this version. So far, no problem...
> >
> > I would like to know if I could expect this problems to be fixed,
because I
> > read on the documentation that version 7.2 was optimized for large
> > databases, or should I check something else.
>
> Possibly, there were a bunch of bugs that were fixed between the two
> versions.  There have still been reports of corruption on 7.2, but almost
> all of those have been traced to hardware problems.  As a note, you
> probably want to run 7.2.2 if you're not already.
>
>
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