Re: Orbitz dumps RAC for better reliability

Orville <hawaiian_at_bacon.com> wrote in message news:<Xns93BBCFD8D2F68hawaiianbaconcom_at_216.148.227.77>...

> Truth in advertising.

Contradiction in terms?

> Customer testimonials:
> "100% of the data was gone!"

What else? And look, it's not even clustered!

> 100% of the data was gone! From the shell if you went
> select * from company, postgres reports 0 tuples! (but returns

Look, this crap is based on Stonebraker's Ingres. Like the original, these idiots concentrated on "functionality" instead of making sure they had a solid data management engine.
Like the original, it loses data at the drop of a hat. Like the original, if a layer of serious data management is added the performance goes out the window.

> Please not I was running fsync off for this database.

He can run fsync until the cows come home. The problem is and has always been the total wanton disregard for data security from the Stonebraker mob. They don't have a SINGLE person with data management experience ANYWHERE in their group! All a bunch of academics with pretentious titles and even bigger egos, that's all.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam Received on Fri Jul 18 2003 - 00:49:18 CDT