Re: Press Release

This paragraph:

HIGH AVAILABILITY
   Expansion of PostgreSQL's Free Space Map disk management feature to support
continuous index maintenance is the last "piece of the puzzle" in providing
24/7/365 uptime for PostgreSQL databases. The many hardware solutions vendors
who include PostgreSQL as the embedded database in their applications may now
eliminate the need for any data locking or downtime in their applications.


I believe is false. As long as you have to vacuum the above is not true. Also
as long as their is a potential that we have to use the reindex command the above
isn't true. Anything that the "system" requires (which does not include transactions)
that causes a lock for any period of time would invalidate the above.

Sincerely,

Joshua Drake



Josh Berkus wrote:

>Guys,
>
>First off:  The release mentions eRServer in passing, in the context of
>"high-availablity enterprise postgres".  So I don't think that needs to be
>changed.
>
>For the Press Kit, where the more substantial mention is, we have 3 choices:
>
>1) Delete the paragraph;
>2) Move the paragraph "down" thus reducing its priority
>3) leave things the way they are.
>
>
>

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