Tim Perdue wrote:
> I thought the hackers team would be interested in knowing that SourceForge, as
> of Friday evening, is running on Postgres. Some 95,000 users and 12,500 Open
> Source projects are depending on your stuff, so I hope it's going to be stable
> for us. ;-)

Tim,

    the  PG  core team is wondering if SourceForge might still be
    running on a snapshot prior to  BETA3,  because  there  is  a
    major bug in it that could result in a complete corruption of
    the system catalog.

    The bug is that the shared buffer cache might mix  up  blocks
    between  different  databases.  As  long  as you only use one
    database, you're fairly safe.  But  a  single  'createdb'  or
    'createuser'  on  the  same  instance, which is connecting to
    template1, could blow away your entire  installation.  It  is
    fixed in BETA3.

    My personal recommendation should be clear.


Jan

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