On a more serious note, what makes Postgres so reliable is a number of things. For example: * careful patch review process - Sometimes it's a bit grueling, and

On a more serious note, what makes Postgres so reliable is a number of things. For example: * careful patch review process - Sometimes it's a bit grueling, and it takes time to get stuff in, but it's extremely valuable. Not only for finding bugs but alternative approaches to implementing the feature. * careful testing - It's a natural part of the review process (Does the patch have tests? Can I come up with something weird that makes it fail?). Of course, there's a bunch of machines with very different configurations (OS, hw resources, ...) that are generally quite good in finding race conditions, incorrect assumptions in the code, ... * bugfixing - Someone reported a bug on pgsql-bugs? Challenge accepted. Customer reported a bug internally? Better fix it ASAP.