Tony Sidaway wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc:
Interesting discussion on Slashdot about the relative recoverability of Postgresql. If we stay with open source DBMS, perhaps at least some of the database servers should be running alternative software.
it's probably a little early to blame mysql. most of livejournal's problems, when the same thing happened to them, were caused by problems with their RAID controllers rather than mysql itself.
kate.