On Sun, March 28, 2010 8:49 pm, Tom Lane wrote: >> The server is Gentoo, and I don't have an identical server to use. This >> machines HA partner is staying at 8.3.5 until we're completely and >> entirely sure 8.3.10 works right. > > I wasn't really suggesting that you need an *identical* machine. If > this is a software problem, as seems moderately likely at this point, > it should be possible to reproduce it on a different machine. Even more > to the point, it's going to be difficult to find the problem without > tracing through the fault case with a debugger --- which isn't something > you're going to want to do on a production server. Have you got a test > machine you can load the data onto? Preferably one you could give a PG > developer access to?
We do have a test system, and the only significant difference from production is the kernel. Test are para-virt VMs with "regular" kernels, production are real machines with hardened kernels (grsec+pax). I got prod onto a regular kernel and nothing in nearly an hour. 8.3.5 has worked forever and a day on this type of setup. -- Mike Williams -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
