Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird Transaction ID limit solution

[Lester C. <le...@ls...>]

Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
>> Could you stop with the absurd comparisons? One is normal maintenance
>> >  and the other is (extreme) disaster recovery which are in no way comparable.
>     But downtime is downtime. Customers don't care about its reason, do they?..

In my own cases, ANY downtime during office hours is unacceptable, so any 
failure that brings the whole system down would result in penalties! Organised 
downtime is possible on many sites, but some sites are running 24/7, So we 
maintain data in a manor that the system will work with elements down, but the 
database operation must be maintained. Firebird has been running reliably for 
many years on these sites, when other services HAVE crashed, to the extent that 
services have been moving onto our framework due simply to it's reliability :)

Customers care very much about downtime ... especially if it HAS to happen 
simply for maintenance reasons.

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