Try shorter release cycles

Posted May 24, 2015 14:07 UTC (Sun) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861)
In reply to: Try shorter release cycles by khim
Parent article: PostgreSQL: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Remember that sometimes restart != scheduled downtime. Sometimes restart == crash.

Try shorter release cycles

Posted May 25, 2015 15:48 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (2 responses)

So what? Systems often don't boot normally after the crash (happened to me with my workstation just a few hours ago). New version of SQL will not change that dynamic much.

Try shorter release cycles

Posted May 26, 2015 1:19 UTC (Tue) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071) [Link]

That's not true of a properly set up server though. Lots of effort generally goes into ensuring that it'll recover without administrator intervention on unplanned reboot.

Try shorter release cycles

Posted May 26, 2015 11:51 UTC (Tue) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]

> So what? Systems often don't boot normally after the crash

First, "often" is grossly overstated: it's actually very rare that a system fails to reboot properly (as in, the services it provides would not start). Second, it might not be the entire system that crashed, it might be just the database itself.