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Comment by TedShiller | Hacker News Reader

I love Postgres. But when I look at the bug list of every release it makes me scared. The types of bugs they have are indicative of a poor development process.

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I worked on Oracle and MySQL for ages and seen tons of bugs. As a support company, the number of bugs we encounter with Postgres are none or hardly 1 in an year. I am still curios to see what those bugs are that made one scary !!!

Yeah, ORA-00600 comes to mind. At my previous company we had to restore from backups once because of this error.

ORA-600 just means an Oracle process crashed while executing a query. Could be a bug in the query optimizer or a dead disk controller. Just restoring a backup without understanding the root cause seems like setting up the next occurrence...

No, it's indicative of the complexity of the system.

Please show other similarly complex systems with fewer bugs: basically doesn't happen.

Yep. We all have dirty laundry, it's just that we can see it open-source projects.

And at least, we see it. It's much easier to appreciate the threat when you see the submerged part of the iceberg :-)

Don't look at MariaDB or MySQL changelog or issue tracker then. You'd get a heart attack.

Can you name a few such bugs please?

Surprising how people feel the need to respond to a post by someone with the handle "TedShiller".

Is that a real name?

Sorry if it is and I hurt your feelings.

What types of bugs are those? Can you explain a bit more?

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