> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:
>
>> >
>> > Once autovacuum gets to the point where it's used by default, this
>> > particular failure mode should be a thing of the past, but in the
>> > meantime I'm not going to panic about it.
>>
>> I don't know how to say this without sounding like a jerk, (I guess
>> that's
>> my role sometimes) but would you go back and re-read this sentence?
>>
>> To paraphrase: "I know this causes a catestrophic data loss, and we have
>> plans to fix it in the future, but for now, I'm not going panic about
>> it."
>
> Do you have a useful suggestion about how to fix it? "Stop working" is
> handwaving and merely basically saying, "one of you people should do
> something about this" is not a solution to the problem, it's not even an
> approach towards a solution to the problem.
Actually, it is not a solution to the problem of losing data. It is a drop
dead last ditch failsafe that EVERY PRODUCT should have before losing
data.
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