>>>>> "pgsql" == pgsql <pgsql@mohawksoft.com> writes:
pgsql> The have a database of information that is coming in at a pgsql> high speed regular basis. One bit of
informationis a pgsql> value. To get this value they must perform SELECT pgsql> sum(field) FROM table. Well, this
simplydoes not pgsql> scale. They've used a trigger system with a small summary pgsql> table where they update, the
numberin the sumary pgsql> field. That works fine, except, that after a few thousand pgsql> updates, the SELECT
timetakes a while. Then they have to pgsql> vacuum constanty. It just seems like an ugly and wastefull pgsql>
process.
Sounds like something that TelegraphCQ can do well ..
http://telegraph.cs.berkeley.edu
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