Re: Is Diskeeper Automatic Mode safe?

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Greg Smith" <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>,"cb" <cb(at)mythtech(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Is Diskeeper Automatic Mode safe?
Date: 2009-11-17 14:59:22
Message-ID: 4B0265EA020000250002C91A@gw.wicourts.gov
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cb <cb(at)mythtech(dot)net> wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Make sure you're not in the line of fire when (not if) that version
>> eats your data. Particularly on Windows, insisting on not
>> upgrading that version is unbelievably, irresponsibly stupid.
>> There are a *large* number of known bugs.
>
>
> I hear ya, and have agreed with you for a long while. There is a
> fairly regular and constant fight in house over the issue of
> upgrading. We get hit on a regular basis with problems that as far
> as I know are bugs that have been fixed (transaction log rename
> crashes that take down PG, as well as queries just vanishing into
> the aether at times of heavy load resulting in hung threads in our
> Tomcat front end as it waits for something to come back that has
> disappeared).

If you could track down some unmodified 1971 Ford Pintos, you could
give them some perspective by having them drive those until they
upgrade.

-Kevin

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