On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:53:00PM -0700, Just Someone wrote: - Hi, - - I've seen both - some unknown reason for it to die (mostly related to - the underlying hardware having issues). We also see instance failure - from time to time with advanced notice. Just like a regular machine - dies from time to time, so do cloud instances. I'd say it's bit more - common on the cloud, but not by a big margin. I might see it more - because I have hundreds of instances running. Hi Guy, Thanks! So, when a cloud machine fails does it get de-allocated/wiped out? or does it is it still out there in a bad state? how do you recover your data? For example, in a physical system if the RAM goes bad the machine crashes but you replace the chip, boot, perform instance recovery and continue on with your life... Thanks Dave -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general