Re: Offending My Tender Sensibilities -OR- OLTP on a Star Schema - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: Offending My Tender Sensibilities -OR- OLTP on a Star Schema
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In response to Re: Offending My Tender Sensibilities -OR- OLTP on a Star Schema  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> *) Do not consider any advice to implement exotic storage backend from
>> someone that has not previously implemented that same technology on a
>> similar scale on a previous project, ever.  Data of large scale is
>> hard.  Installing magical tool X often besides not solving the problem
>> gives you another difficult problem to solve.
>
> Merlin, this reminds me of the quote from Mencken: For every complex
> problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

well said, heh.

merlin


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