Re: Help me recovering data

Stephan Szabo wrote:
> 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.

Is not a solution but between loose data and shutdown the postmaster I
prefer the shutdown.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola