> On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 13:35:25 -0500, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> The catastrophic failure of the database because a maintenence function >> is >> not performed is a problem with the software, not with the people using >> it. > > There doesn't seem to be disagreement that something should be done going > forward. > > The disagreement sems to be what effort should be made in back porting > fixes to previous versions.
Now, lets imagine PostgreSQL is being developed by a large company. QA announces it has found a bug that will cause all the users data to disappear if they don't run a maintenence program correctly. Vacuuming one or two tables is not enough, you have to vacuum all tables in all databases. This bug would get marked as a critical error and a full scale effort would be made to contact previous users to upgrade or check their procedures. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
