In response to "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>:
> Bill Moran wrote:
> > In response to Shiva Sarna <shiva.sarna@yahoo.com>:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am working on a web application where the front end is struts framework
> >> and back end is PgSQL 7.4.
>
> *cough*, you are going to greatly decrease your ability to scale if you
> are running anything less than 8.1.
> >
> > Performance _will_ degrade if all of those connections are busy at once, but
> > that's going to happen with any shared system. The disk can only read from
> > one area at a time, and other system resources will be contended for as well.
>
> 7.4 doesn't scale to what he wants, even on big hardware.
Oops ... didn't notice that.
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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
