On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 10:52:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do you want to be the one person who does notice a problem? :-)
Right, and notice that when you notice the problem _may not_ be when it happens. The problem with errors in memory (or on disk controllers, another place not to skimp in your hardware budget for database machines) is that the unnoticed failure could well write corrupted data out. It's some time later that you notice you have the problem, when you go to look at the data and discover you have garbage. If your data is worth storing, it's worth storing correctly, and so doing things to improve the chances of correct storage is a good idea. A -- Andrew Sullivan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Everything that happens in the world happens at some place. --Jane Jacobs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster