Re: PITR Dead horse?

> > Don't know. But apparently different users will have 
> > different demands From a database.
> 
> Of course, but I would argue that my claim that PostgreSQL is reliable
> is backed up by the lack of people posting messages like 'we had a
> powercut and now my DB is hosed'.

One thing we could use (and I have no idea how to do it) is a "This
hardware is not appropriate for a database" test kit.

Something to detect lying disks, battery backed write cache that isn't
so battery backed, etc.

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Rod Taylor <rbt [at] rbt [dot] ca>

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