Re: Is Oracle using Gitlab Failure against PostgreSQL?
Wei Shan <[email protected]>
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Funny enough, the admin of the group, who was the thread starter, closed the thread after his final response. On 10 February 2017 at 11:22, Martín Marqués <[email protected]> wrote: > El 10/02/17 a las 05:01, Gunnar "Nick" Bluth escribió: > > > >> Question is, is there anything Postgres can really learn from this > failure? > > > > Maybe re-order the docs? From what they made public, it seemed they > > either started backing up with a 7.x or early 8.x release and never > > adjusted the procedure to the new possibilities (LVM snapshots?!? > > Really?!?) or they stopped reading too early... :/ > > Simon Riggs wrote a nice blog after the incident, which IMO details the > flaws in the incident, with the conclusion that postgres wasn't in fault > there. > > http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/dataloss-at-gitlab/ > > I don't think the issue they had has anything to do with how the > documentation is organized. This was just bad system administration > policies (you can see a bunch of changes they did after the incident > which aim at preventing from happening again). > > In particular, the same problem would have happened with any database > engine, including Oracle. (I'm taking about the administrator deleting > all the data files) > > Regards, > > -- > Martín Marqués http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ > PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-advocacy mailing list ([email protected]) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-advocacy > -- Regards, Ang Wei Shan