On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 19:30, lec wrote: > Chris Travers wrote: > The first hardware that got replaced was the SCSI controller. After > that there were still hardware "hanging" and eventually the system > engineers replaced the whole server and they weren't sure what the fault > was. The lost transactions happened not on the first server hang. I'm > more curious to know why the transactions in the middle got lost but the > last transaction was there.
With questionable hardware (failing memory, scsi / raid controller, etc.) all failure modes are pretty much possible. PostgreSQL is good, but it can't make up for bad hardware. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
