Re: Help me recovering data

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 pgsql@mohawksoft.com wrote:

> >
> > Once autovacuum gets to the point where it's used by default, this
> > particular failure mode should be a thing of the past, but in the
> > meantime I'm not going to panic about it.
>
> I don't know how to say this without sounding like a jerk, (I guess that's
> my role sometimes) but would you go back and re-read this sentence?
>
> To paraphrase: "I know this causes a catestrophic data loss, and we have
> plans to fix it in the future, but for now, I'm not going panic about it."

Do you have a useful suggestion about how to fix it?  "Stop working" is
handwaving and merely basically saying, "one of you people should do
something about this" is not a solution to the problem, it's not even an
approach towards a solution to the problem.