Re: How to simulate crashes of PostgreSQL?

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to simulate crashes of PostgreSQL?
Date: 2009-08-24 19:18:22
Message-ID: dcc563d10908241218n336b61e2j7e651f3908ce078a@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:41 PM, David Fetter<david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:10:30AM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane<greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> wrote:
>> > A server crash is a pretty rare event in the Postgres world, so I
>> > would not spend too many cycles on this...
>>
>> I've been running pg in production since 7.0 came out.  zero server
>> crashes.
>
> In my experience, OS crashes are much more common than PostgreSQL
> crashes.

Also, admin mistakes are more common than pgsql crashes. I've done
things like type "sudo reboot" into my workstation only realize
seconds later that I'm logged into a production server (long time ago,
but still).

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