On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Merlin Moncure wrote: > >> We had several good backups since the previous outage so it's not >> clear the events are related but after months of smooth operation I >> find that coincidence highly suspicious. As always, we need to suspect >> hardware problems but I'm highly abstracted from them -- using esx + >> san. > > Ah, so you're subject not only to hardware flaws but also to > virtualization layer bugs :-)
Wait a couple of more years, and we'll get more complains about Postgres running in containers running in VMs. Even more fun waiting ahead. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers