[Gllug] Introductions to Databases

Richard Huxton dev at archonet.com
Fri Jul 17 15:29:33 UTC 2009


Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Richard wrote:
>> I don't remember the developers ignoring data corruption bugs even back 
>> in the 6.x series
> 
> I never said they did, for the good reason that they didn't. 

Ah, sorry. That was how I read:

 >>> not only did performance come quite a distant second, so did
 >>> data integrity.

 >>> It's not *that* long ago that a chunk of the user base
 >>> were
 >>> seeing regular data corruption issues with Postgresql.

...

 > Um, yes.  These were known issues.  It's not as if the user community
 > conspired to hide these things in case it upset the developers.


Always tricky in mailing lists to get the balance between brevity and 
completeness. Apologies if I misunderstood you.

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