[bsder]

Even more interesting is right above that:

> he managed to segfault every single database engine he tried, including SQLite, except for Postgres. Postgres always ran and gave the correct answer. We were never able to find a fault in that. The Postgres people tell me that we just weren’t trying hard enough.

[chasil]

I will confess that it is easier to quote the rule than the exception.

That is a profound compliment for Postgres.

[Gordonjcp]

I've always felt like Postgres is like one of those big old Detroit Diesel V12s that power generators and mining trucks and things. It's slow and loud and hopelessly thirsty compared to the modern stuff you get nowadays, and it'll continue to be just as slow and loud and hopelessly thirsty for another 40 or 50 years without stopping even once if you don't fiddle with it.

[p_l]

And then you find out that the slowness was because it was placed in first gear and someone left a limiter on the throttle...