X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB0A329D14 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:04:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07622-04 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:04:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6A2F329D3B for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:04:10 +0100 (BST) Received: (qmail 22593 invoked by uid 65534); 29 Sep 2004 21:04:09 -0000 Received: from dsl-213-023-248-159.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) (213.23.248.159) by mail.gmx.net (mp017) with SMTP; 29 Sep 2004 23:04:09 +0200 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: Tom Lane , Bruce Momjian Subject: Re: Server unreliability Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:04:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: Devrim GUNDUZ , PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List , PostgreSQL advocacy References: <200409292018.i8TKILw17221@candle.pha.pa.us> <3104.1096490442@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <3104.1096490442@sss.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409292304.01401.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200409/225 X-Sequence-Number: 5295 Tom Lane wrote: > We all know perfectly well what the problems are --- > it's a matter of finding time, and sometimes money, to solve them. > We don't need "new ideas" unless the ideas are about how to produce > those resources. Throwing more resources at an entity that does not scale won't achieve anything. In order to improve, we need to listen to competing concepts and pick the best one, not keep giving the current one more time over and over. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/