Subject Re: Firebird corrupts databases more often?
Author Alexander V.Nevsky
--- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...> wrote:
> >Is CS on Linux (or even Windows) the way to go for maximum reliability?
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> fwiw, known sources of corruption (meaning busted databases that need
> tweezers and Lysol to repair) are:
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One more addition especially for CS: killing "hanged" processes as a regular practice. IMO most dangerous is to kill select which
runs on very garbaged data - DML changes are transaction-protected, physical garbage collection - not.

Best regards,
Alexander.