Re: Some Solaris notes, and an invitation - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:08:54PM +1200, Kurt at iadvance wrote:

> Are there any actual times you can provide on operations on
> some big tables (if you have any of around 10-100 Gb say) - just
> 'select count(*)' kind of stuff, maybe a 'select *' where its doing a
> sequential scan?

Ok, let me see what I can do today.

A

> We're using commodity hardware - AMD XP's - and wonder
> how what kind performance you can get with the 'big iron'.

Keep in mind that it's not always speed you're getting from the big
iron.  In this case, for instance, part of the advantage is
redundancy.

A

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