>
>> They didn't give me complete information, but it should be some kind
>> of industrial PC with a 600MHz CPU. Memory should be not huge nor
>> small, maybe a couple of GBytes, hard disk should be some type of
>> industrial Compact Flash of maybe 16 GBytes.
>
> It should work perfectly OK.
>
> Remember that you need a fast CPU if you have a database server that
> processes many queries from many users simultaneously.
> Since your "server" will process very few queries (maybe one per
> second, something like that) even a slow (by modern standards) 600 MHz
> CPU will be more than enough...
> I'd say for such an application, your hardware is way overkill (it
> would work on a smartphone...) but since hardware is so cheap...
A smartphone... you're right, I didn't think of that, but the hardware I
described is very much like the one of a modern smartphone!!!
Are you saying that PostgreSQL+PostGIS can actually run on a
smartphone??? Intriguing...
Did anyone ever actually tried that???
Bye
Paolo
