Re: PostgreSQL 7.0 a success

First of all,
Let me say I dont have much experience with postgresql and I've
done only few tests, so excuse me for any wrong comments i make.

I think the following things should be improved in postgresql now:

- reliability
- Documentation

Sometimes a table doesnt exist anymore but it's still listed in
pg_class table, or the opposite, or you did a physical backup and you wanna
restore
the db, and other things that could be improved and more documented.

Some crashes we tested (like powering down the system while
running with flush off) were just fatal to some tables, and after restart
we got
the 'backend terminated...' message when trying to use the table.
We also tried a dump after restarting, but other processes that started
after the
dump were frozen, waiting for the dump to complete.

I also miss something like mysql's isamchk and a better control of the
security,
with 1 system table controlling passwords, hosts allowed and denied, and
anything
for the users of all databases.

just my 2 cents......

regards,

At 23:20 20/05/00 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>PostgreSQL 7.0 has been a huge success. Bug reports since release have
>been so few that we thought our e-mail system wasn't working properly.
>Turns out things are very quiet because the release is so stable.
>
>So, those people waiting on the fence to try 7.0, go ahead. It is
>ready for prime-time.
>
>Of course, we have big plans for 7.1, and will start on that shortly.
>
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Gustavo Henrique Maultasch
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