From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200409292044.i8TKiRo21324@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Server unreliability
In-Reply-To: <200409291335.20727.josh@agliodbs.com>
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:44:27 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> David,
> 
> > Marc, you've been a great contributor to the community, but lately,
> > you've gotten quite severely off track.  You can continue to help by
> > straightening up and flying right, but you are, as you have been
> > reminded publicly in the past, *not* the dictator on this project.
> > You are not indispensable, and if you continue to pull this nonsense,
> > you *will* be dispensed with.
> 
> Hey!   Take it easy!    Everyone here has been working hard to promote and 
> support PostgreSQL, particularly Marc, and taking a superior tone does 
> nothing to improve the real problems.
> 
> Even if we were donated a 5-server data center at Globix with unlimited 
> bandwidth tommorrow, Marc would still he helping us with list/server admin, 
> and it would still be the case that Hub.org has supported this project for 
> years, including periods in which there was no/little benefit in doing so.   

"Years" where there was no/little benefit.  We had first-class
infrastructure when other open source projects were run on servers that
moved every few months.

My problem is that our reliability has gone _down_ in the past few years
when it should have been getting better, and I am trying to find out the
cause and push us to adopt a solution.

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