| From: | "Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe(at)qwest(dot)net> |
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| To: | "lec" <limec(at)streamyx(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Chris Travers" <chris(at)metatrontech(dot)com>, "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Losing records when server hang |
| Date: | 2004-08-11 06:14:37 |
| Message-ID: | 1092204877.27166.354.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 19:30, lec wrote:
> Chris Travers wrote:
> The first hardware that got replaced was the SCSI controller. After
> that there were still hardware "hanging" and eventually the system
> engineers replaced the whole server and they weren't sure what the fault
> was. The lost transactions happened not on the first server hang. I'm
> more curious to know why the transactions in the middle got lost but the
> last transaction was there.
With questionable hardware (failing memory, scsi / raid controller,
etc.) all failure modes are pretty much possible. PostgreSQL is good,
but it can't make up for bad hardware.
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