| From: | Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> |
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| To: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: emergency outage requiring database restart |
| Date: | 2016-10-18 01:32:14 |
| Message-ID: | 1c54cf65-e9c0-40ea-4cbb-2bc602842910@archidevsys.co.nz |
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On 18/10/16 14:12, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> Merlin Moncure wrote:
>>
>>> We had several good backups since the previous outage so it's not
>>> clear the events are related but after months of smooth operation I
>>> find that coincidence highly suspicious. As always, we need to suspect
>>> hardware problems but I'm highly abstracted from them -- using esx +
>>> san.
>> Ah, so you're subject not only to hardware flaws but also to
>> virtualization layer bugs :-)
> Wait a couple of more years, and we'll get more complains about
> Postgres running in containers running in VMs. Even more fun waiting
> ahead.
that started life on different hardware with a different O/S
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