::scr Ramblings of a Classic Refugee or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love OS X

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:29:05PM +0000, Alaric Snell wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 February 2002 15:20, you wrote:
> > No, I try to avoid relational databases because they're slow and expensive.
> Which ones have you used? PostgreSQL and MySQL and fast and cheap :-)

Those two are still slow, and they're more expensive to maintain than
other solutions, if only because you have to spend money throwing hardware
at them.

> > > rather than just trusting the fecking thing to work and fix itself
> > I most assuredly do *not* trust them to work and fix themselves.
> What do you trust your data to instead, then?

To my backups.  I work on the assumption that any piece of software
is going to fail in interesting ways.  And I *certainly* don't trust
software to detect that it has borked and to fix itself.  If it could
do that, it wouldn't bork in the first place.

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David Cantrell | david@cantrell.org.uk | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david

      We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity
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