Re: How to simulate crashes of PostgreSQL?

[Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>]

On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 00:26 +0400, Sergey Samokhin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > If, however, you mean a crash of the server machine PostgreSQL is
> > runnning on, which is MUCH more likely and will have different
> > effects/behaviour, then Ray Stell's advice to bring the interface down
> > is probably pretty good.
> 
> Sorry for a bit ambiguous usage of both "crash" and "fault" terms. By
> those words I meant crash of the server machine PostgreSQL is running
> on, not the PostgreSQL itself. Network outages between client and
> PostgreSQL are also kind of something I would like to simulate in any
> way.

This is the reference I should've given:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Netem

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Craig Ringer