[Gllug] Introductions to Databases

[Grzegorz Jaskiewicz]

On 17 Jul 2009, at 14:34, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:55:07PM +0100, Richard wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 06:19:44PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>>> It's not *that* long ago that a chunk of the user base were
>>> seeing regular data corruption issues with Postgresql.
>>
>> Back this up with links please.
>
> I'd have some digging to do - when I say not *that* long ago, I mean  
> not
> long ago for me, as opposed to all the thrusting young folk on the  
> list.
> I'm thinking of the transition from Postgres95 to Postgres 6.x which
> would have been 96/97.  For some time after that, though, even though
> the data reliability issues were solved, the performance was terrible
> and there were gaps and annoyances with the SQL implementation that
> meant I would never have considered using Postgresql in production
> systems before version 7.1 or 7.2.

between those versions, and even the 8.1, not to mention the 8.3 is  
world of difference...

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