Hi Scott, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe 'at' g2switchworks.com> writes: > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 02:04, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: [...] > > Yes, we use 7.4.5 actually, because "it just works", so production > > wants to first deal with all the things that don't work before > > upgrading. I have recently discovered about the background writer > > of 8.x which could be a supplementary reason to push for an > > ugprade though. > > Imagine you get a call from the manufacturer of your car. There's a > problem with the fuel pump, and, in a small percentage of accidents, > your car could catch fire and kill everyone inside. > > Do you go in for the recall, or ignore it because you just want your car > to "just work?" Ah, this holy computer/OS/whatever-to-cars comparison.. How many million electrons would the world save if computer people would abandon it? :) > In the case of the third number in postgresql releases, that's what > you're talking about. the updates that have come after the 7.4.5 > version, just talking 7.4 series here, have included a few crash and > data loss fixes. Rare, but possible. I guess we didn't know that. I for myself have (a bit more) excuses because I'm on the development side :) But I've passed the information to the operation team, thank you. -- Guillaume Cottenceau
