Re: How to improve db performance with $7K?

Steve Poe <spoe@sfnet.cc> writes:
> Situation:  An 24/7 animal hospital (100 employees) runs their business
> on Centos 3.3 (RHEL 3) Postgres 7.4.2 (because they have to)

[ itch... ]  Surely they could at least move to 7.4.7 without pain.
There are serious data-loss bugs known in 7.4.2.

            regards, tom lane