Re: New server to improve performance on our large and busy DB - advice?

Scott Marlowe escribió:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> > Scott Marlowe escribió:
> >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Carlo Stonebanks
> >> <stonec(dot)register(at)sympatico(dot)ca> wrote:
> >
> >> > 4) Is this the right PG version for our needs?
> >>
> >> 8.3 is very stable.  Update to the latest.  8.4 seems good, but I've
> >> had, and still am having, problems with it crashing in production.
> >> Not often, maybe once every couple of months, but just enough that I'm
> >> not ready to try and use it there yet.  And I can't force the same
> >> failure in testing, at least not yet.
> >
> > uh.  Is there a report of the crash somewhere with details, say stack
> > traces and such?
>
> No, the only server that does this is in production as our stats db
> and when it happens it usually gets restarted immediately. It does
> this about once every two months. Do the PGDG releases have debugging
> symbols and what not? I'll see about having a stack trace ready to
> run for the next time it does this.

You mean the RPMs? Yes, I think Devrim publishes debuginfo packages
which you need to install separately.

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