On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Luke Lonergan <LLonergan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Not to mention the #1 cause of server faults in my experience: OS kernel bug causes a crash. Battery backup doesn't help you much there. I've been using pgsql since way back, in a lot of projects, and almost almost of them on some flavor of linux, usually redhat. I have had zero kernel crashes on production dbs in that time. I'd be interested to know which historic kernels caused you the crashes. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance