On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 15:45, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:22:59AM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > 2. This response is alarming: > > > Tom Lane wrote in digest V1.5092: > > > >We are supporting Windows as a Postgres platform for the benefit of > > > developers who want to > > > >do testing on their laptops (and for reasons best known to themselves > > > feel a need to run >Windows on their laptops). > > > > This is the second problem. Windows simply has problems that cause data > > relibility problems that may or may not be surmountable in the future. > > Do you have any references to these problems? I've seen several people > mention things like this in passing, but I have yet to see any > specifics. I'd have to look through the -hackers list and a few other places, but what I remember seeing was problems in the general area of unreliable journaling / disk syncing et. al. It's been a while. Plus my experience has been that Windows often behaves in unpredictable ways when it's running under a heavy load, so I'd expect race conditions to show up under those circumstances, and possibly corrupt data. It's certainly been a problem for most large SQL Server installations I've dealt with. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
