Re: Reliability Stability of PgSQL & it's JDBC driver

Nathan,

Thanks for your response. It is great to know that Postgres is working out
fine. However, I don't understand what "Vaccum of the DB" means nor what
the "WAL" functionality is. If you could briefly explain these, that would
be great.

Thanks again!
-ngd.

> The main problem that you have in a production system is the VACUUM of the
database.
> This will in most cases severely inhibit performance. If your system
isn't
> 24x7, then you should be fine as you can schedule this for off times. I
> believe that the need to vacuum the database will be removed in the next
> version due to WAL functionality, but I'm sure someone else is better
> qualified to explain that. I just wanted to vouch for the stability of
> Postgres in a production environment.