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Added by Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza over 10 years ago
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sudo service postgresql stop |
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this prevents the OS from SIGKILLing Postgres, which sometimes causes |
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database corruption |
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**WARNING**: system upgrades can break key parts of the full-database |
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import, causing errors such as disk space overruns. for this reason, it |
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is recommended to maintain a snapshot copy of the VM as it was at the |
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last successful import, for fallback use if a system upgrade breaks |
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anything. system upgrades on the snapshot VM should be disabled |
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completely, and because this will also disable security fixes, the |
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snapshot VM should be disconnected from the internet and all networking |
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interfaces. (this is an unfortunate consequence of modern OSes being |
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written in non-memory-safe languages such as C and C++.) |
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Notes on running programs: |
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**WARNING**: always start with a clean shell, to avoid spurious bugs. the |
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/README.TXT: Notes on system stability: removed no longer applicable warning about system upgrades, which is now incorrect because the disk space overrun bug (#887) was found not to have been caused by a system upgrade