Re: Which is the setup with lowest resources you know Postgres is used in? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dmitry Igrishin
Subject Re: Which is the setup with lowest resources you know Postgres is used in?
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In response to Re: Which is the setup with lowest resources you know Postgres is used in?  (raf <raf@raf.org>)
Responses Re: Which is the setup with lowest resources you know Postgres is used in?  (raf <raf@raf.org>)
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чт, 8 окт. 2020 г. в 00:14, raf <raf@raf.org>:
>
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 01:53:44PM +0300, Dmitry Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In many cases concurrency is not a problem and in fact SQLite may
> > handle concurrent requests faster than Postgres. Since SQLite is
> > server-less and access overhead is near to zero (compared to Postgres)
> > each writer does its work quickly and no lock lasts for more than a
> > few dozen milliseconds.
> > On the other hand, Postgres is better in cases of really high concurrency.
>
> Presumably, this is no longer a problem, but many years
> ago (between 14 and 10 years ago) I was using sqlite
> for a low traffic website (probably no more than 40
> users at a time), and the database became corrupted so
> often that I had had to automate rebuilding it from the
> latest backup and my own sql logs. I was very silly.
> Switching to postgres was the real solution.
As for now SQLite is a very robust solution if used properly.



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