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by ahachete 171 days ago
Hi, StackGres founder here.

We're constantly striving to improve the user experience and the quality of StackGres. Would you mind sharing some feedback as to what made your experience not good with it?

Did you join the Slack Community (https://slack.stackgres.io/) to ask if you were facing some trouble? It always helps, even if it is just by sharing your troubles.

(If you'd like to share feedback and do so privately, please DM on the Slack Community)

Your feedback will be much appreciated.
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brikym 171 days ago
I did try slack. Maybe the problem is it was launched much too early. A certificate expiry issue caught me out because there wasn't an automatic process on this version to roll them over. Ironically a single database instance would have been much much more stable. I upgraded but this didn't bring up the database, restoring through the portal failed, so I had to create a new PG cluster to get my site up and I never ended up recovering the data as the process was very tedious involving PVCs rather than just pointing to my bucket. The ratio of open to closed issues on the repo is much worse than CNPG so I would simply start there.
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ahachete 171 days ago
Thank you for your feedback. I'm trying to extract possible improvement actions from your comment, and here are my thoughts.

That certificate expiry issue was unfortunate, but was resolved (if I'm not mistaken) a couple of years ago.

StackGres is just a control plane, your database is as stable as a standalone one. StackGres itself may fail and it won't affect your database, it's not on the data plane. Indeed, it has a feature to "pause it" if you need to perform some manual operations (otherwise everything is automated).

There are procedures to reconstruct a database from PVC. It's arguably tedious, but should be much simpler than running a Postgres pod without the help of an operator like StackGres.

As for the ratio of issues: most of the issues that we get are feature and/or extensions requests, and certainly we can't tackle them all. Most, if not all, outstanding issues are addressed within a reasonable time frame. Is there any particular issue that would itch you that is open? I'd be happy to personally review it. Yet, there are as of today more than 2K closed issues, I won't call that a small number.

I'd also weight the importance of issues, like the split brain that CNPG suffers [1] and that apparently won't even be solved. StackGres relies instead on the trusted and reputed Patroni, which is known NOT to risk split brains that could lead to severe data loss.

[1]: https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/discussions...

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