Re: postgres on a beowulf? (AMD)opteron? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: postgres on a beowulf? (AMD)opteron?
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Msg-id 20030520112739.GB11943@libertyrms.info
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In response to postgres on a beowulf? (AMD)opteron?  (george young <gry@ll.mit.edu>)
Responses Re: postgres on a beowulf? (AMD)opteron?
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On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 01:28:32PM -0400, george young wrote:
> Has anyone run postgres on a beowulf system?

Can't be done.  None of the cluster systems support cross-machne
shared memory (this is actually a problem for Postgres and NUMA, as
well, BTW).

> I have a smallish DB (pgdump|bzip2 -> 10MB), with ~45 users logged in
> using local X(python/gtk) postgres client apps.

Seems like you want a sledgehammer to kill a fly here.  That's tiny.
Why do you want the complications of a cluster for this?

A

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