On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Greg Smith <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: >> >> I tested 8.4 what I thought was fairly hardly last year only >> to have 8.4.1 die under the same load that 8.3 handled without a >> problem, and reverted to the known working version putting testing >> 8.4.1 on hold. >> >> So to ME, the choice is a fully functional 8.3 installation that has >> NO problems with free space map because of configuration choices, or >> an 8.4 with a known (to me) issue of crashing and dying. >> > > FYI, since December of 2009 (release of 8.4.2) there have been 10 bugs fixed > with the word "crash" in their description, as well as 7 memory leaks that > could potentially lead to crash. Even six months ago I was still hesitant > to push 8.4 toward production systems; the number of bugs shaken out in the > last two releases has been substantial. Exactly, which is why I posted a followup saying I knew it was quite possible the bug had been fixed. But hope is not a method, so until I can test to be sure the problem I was hitting was one of the ones fixed, I'll keep production on 8.3 for now. Because for me, it's proven itself reliable over ~2 years of very heavy use. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
