Simon, > I'd vote for a new list dedicated to discussing "Robustness" issues, > such as PITR and the fsync/sync issues. <snip> > The list probably would remain clearly differentiated, in the same way > [Performance] covers lots of areas not discussed in [Hackers].
Actually, Simon, you're welcome to bring this discussion over to PERFORMANCE. We discuss scalability and HA on Performance frequently, and I don't feel that the discussion you refer to would be out of place. But Tom is right that you need the feedback of a lot of the people on Hackers once you start discussing a code solution, so there's not much point in starting a new mailing list that all the same people need to subscribe to. Certainly Jan had enough trouble getting meaningful feedback on the sync issue here; on his own list he'd still be talking to himself. As far as promoting an image of reliability, that belongs on Advocacy. The image and the reality don't sync much; we're already about 500% more reliable than MS SQL Server but ask any ten CIOs what they think? That's just marketing. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
