Re: PITR Dead horse?

Dave Page wrote:
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nicolai Tufar [mailto:ntufar@pisem.net] 
> > Sent: 05 February 2004 00:01
> > To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PITR Dead horse? 
> > 
> > Totally agree. Robustness and rock-solidness are the only 
> > things missing for PostgreSQL to become the killer of certain 
> > commercial enterprise databases out there.
> 
> Well I've only been using PostgreSQL since 1997 and the *only* release I
> ever had problems with was 6.3.2. We also use(d) Informix SE, DB2,
> Unidata and SQL Server and only Informix and Unidata come close to the
> robustness of PostgreSQL - and they're not the ones we need to worry
> about.
> 
> Now I'm not saying we shouldn't be continually looking to improve
> things, but I don't think this is quite the problem you imply.

I assume he was talking about the lack of data recovery in cases of hard
drive failure --- we now require you restore from backup or use a
replicated machine/drive setup.

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