Re: No flamefest please, MySQL vs. PostgreSQL AGAIN - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: No flamefest please, MySQL vs. PostgreSQL AGAIN
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Msg-id 20030514174859.GS20729@libertyrms.info
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In response to Re: No flamefest please, MySQL vs. PostgreSQL AGAIN  (Michael A Nachbaur <mike@nachbaur.com>)
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On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:32:14PM -0700, Michael A Nachbaur wrote:
>
> I tried rserv with a database that has over 1000 inserts per minute, and it
> would just sit there for days at the "Preparing snapshot" (on a
> Dual-Xeon/2GHz).  I hadn't tried indexing the id column though.

You not only need an index on it; you need a unique index on it.  (If
you have duplicates, replication breaks.)

A

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