Re: New server to improve performance on our large and busy DB - advice?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Carlo Stonebanks <stonec(dot)register(at)sympatico(dot)ca>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: New server to improve performance on our large and busy DB - advice?
Date: 2010-01-21 15:51:51
Message-ID: 20100121155151.GA3423@alvh.no-ip.org
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Scott Marlowe escribió:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Carlo Stonebanks
> <stonec(dot)register(at)sympatico(dot)ca> wrote:

> > 4) Is this the right PG version for our needs?
>
> 8.3 is very stable. Update to the latest. 8.4 seems good, but I've
> had, and still am having, problems with it crashing in production.
> Not often, maybe once every couple of months, but just enough that I'm
> not ready to try and use it there yet. And I can't force the same
> failure in testing, at least not yet.

uh. Is there a report of the crash somewhere with details, say stack
traces and such?

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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