[Gllug] Introductions to Databases

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 06:01:10PM +0100, - wrote:
> 
> You're wrong. I want reliable database storage. Anything else
> (*everything* else) is secondary. What's the point of replication and
> other fancy features if you can't be sure that the data you put into
> your database will be the same as the data you get back out? I may not
> care about the purity of the code (although it's usually a good
> indicator that they're doing things right), but I certainly care about
> the integrity of my data. *You* may not care. And that's fine. But
> don't assume that everyone else feels the same.

I agree, but let's not pretend that Postgresql makes a religion of
data purity; historically, it was the correctness and comprehensiveness
of the SQL implementation that the postgres development community cared
about; 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.

-- 
Bruce

I see a mouse.  Where?  There, on the stair.  And its clumsy wooden
footwear makes it easy to trap and kill.  -- Harry Hill
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