Re: Heavily fragmented table and index data in 8.0.3

On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 11:56 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 05:31:37PM +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
>
> > Hardware is from Sun, not a grocery store PC, so I don't suppose it to
> > be faulty.
>
> FWIW, I had a pair of E4500s in one job that I would _happily_ have
> traded for any beige box you care to mention.  Heck, at the end I
> mighta traded them for a lump of pig iron, they were so flakey.
> Having "Sun" on the outside in no way protects you from faulty
> hardware.

Considering that a lot Sun hardware is just rebranded newsys (newisys?)
I wouldn't put too much stock in the old "It's name brand" either. That
is in no way to suggest that newsys is a bad vendor, just that Sun is
just re-branding too.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake