On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 06:40:58AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-07-18 at 00:57 +0200, Pierre Barre wrote:
> > Looking forward to your feedback and questions!
>
> I think the biggest hurdle you will have to overcome is to
> convince notoriously paranoid DBAs that this tall stack
> provides reliable service, honors fsync() etc.
Is there a test suite that can be used to test PG's ACIDity in the face
of simulated power failures?
> Performance is great, but it is not everything. If things
> perform surprisingly well, people become suspicious.
+1
> > P.S. The full project includes a custom NFS filesystem too.
>
> "NFS" is a key word that does not inspire confidence in
> PostgreSQL circles...
Certainly NFSv3 should. NFSv4 is much safer but I've no experience
running PG on it and I assume there will be cases where recovery from
network and/or server failures is slow.