Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:15:03PM -0700, TJ O'Donnell wrote:
>
>>While writing installation instructions for my new PostgreSQL product, I
>>found myself
>>writing the following sentence:
>>"For first time users, we recommend building the gnova database,
>>since it has no impact on other databases."
>
>
> A problem not mentioned already is that if your database contains a C
> function and it has a bug which results in a crash, your whole
> production database will go down. This may not be desirable.
Well I have the perfect solution for that.... <grin>
I just won't write any buggy code!
Seriously, this could be a problem, especially since there is
3rd party software involved, too. Guess I've opened myself up for some
serious testing procedures. That's a good thing.
Since I'm writing in C++ with a thin interface to C for pg,
I catch a lot of nasty situtations which used to crash my C programs.
TJ