On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >> >
> >> > Once autovacuum gets to the point where it's used by default, this
> >> > particular failure mode should be a thing of the past, but in the
> >> > meantime I'm not going to panic about it.
> >>
> >> I don't know how to say this without sounding like a jerk, (I guess
> >> that's
> >> my role sometimes) but would you go back and re-read this sentence?
> >>
> >> To paraphrase: "I know this causes a catestrophic data loss, and we have
> >> plans to fix it in the future, but for now, I'm not going panic about
> >> it."
> >
> > Do you have a useful suggestion about how to fix it? "Stop working" is
> > handwaving and merely basically saying, "one of you people should do
> > something about this" is not a solution to the problem, it's not even an
> > approach towards a solution to the problem.
>
> Actually, it is not a solution to the problem of losing data. It is a drop
> dead last ditch failsafe that EVERY PRODUCT should have before losing
> data.
Let's try again. Saying, "one of you people should do something about
this" is not a solution to the problem or an approach thereto. "Stop
working" is handwaving since I see no approach therein that allows the
user to actually recover the data.
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