Re: Monty on MySQL 5.1: "Oops, we did it again"

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Steve Crawford" <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Monty on MySQL 5.1: "Oops, we did it again"
Date: 2008-12-01 20:31:26
Message-ID: dcc563d10812011231r632b8651r691e2d11c2edce7b@mail.gmail.com
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2008/12/1 Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> I'd rather do the paritioning by hand and use slony and know it works
> than rely on the code that's doing all that in mysql. If your server
> crashes while updating a partitioned table, you could lose all the
> data in it. Replication can mysteriously just quit working with no
> errors or warning.
>
> Make your pick, half assed code that sometimes works, or postgresql. :)

FYI, my reference up there was to MySQL doing those things (losing
data and not replicating) not pgsql...

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