Re: quick review

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Molle Bestefich <molle(dot)bestefich(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: quick review
Date: 2006-11-21 21:11:05
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On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 21:50 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Molle Bestefich wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > First time PostgreSQL user.
> >
> > Here's a review of my experience so far.
> >
> > 1.) Reading the manual
> >
> > Looks good feature-wise, but there's a suspicious lack of reference to
> > any kind of repair utility for damaged data files. Hmm. I've been
> > using computers for long enough that I know that in the real world
> > there's no such thing as "data corruption doesn't occur", so it's
> > rather suspicious.
>
> Unless you have buggy hardware, there is no need for a repair tool.
> That is our position.

And when I mentioned that to two of my largest customers, they both
looked at me like I had lost my mind.

Something to think about.

Joshua D. Drake

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