Re: RFC: Very large scale postgres support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Rod Taylor
Subject Re: RFC: Very large scale postgres support
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Msg-id 1076293206.48991.124.camel@jester
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In response to Re: RFC: Very large scale postgres support  ("Alex J. Avriette" <alex@posixnap.net>)
Responses Re: RFC: Very large scale postgres support
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On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 21:01, Alex J. Avriette wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:01:38PM -0500, Rod Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Replication won't help if those are all mostly write transactions. If a
> > small percentage, even 1% would be challenging, is INSERTS, UPDATES or
> > DELETES, master / slave replication might get you somewhere.
> 
> There is no way on earth we could be doing writes at that rate. I think
> that's a given.

Sure you can, if you can horizontally partition the data so clients A
are on machine A, clients B are on machine B, ...



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