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[Paul McCullagh <paul.mccullagh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a good point! :)

Speaks for killing the server if recover fails.

On Mar 3, 2010, at 1:39 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:27:44 +0100, Paul McCullagh <paul.mccullagh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > wrote:
> > This would make it possible to prevent startup of the server if
> > recovery fails. But I am not so sure this is an advantage.
>
> I've always been in 2 minds about this....
>
> my guess is that a lot of code for "is this server alive" at most:
> a) connects to socket
> b) runs "SELECT 1;"
>
> and none of them actually check the storage engine you're using is  
> okay.
>
> --
> Stewart Smith



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