On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:02:20PM +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote: > A good goal. But why would anybody _need_ 50 slaves ?
They might have a contractual responsibility for extremely wide geographic distribution. Or they might be building an application that needs extremely wide network-topological distribution to avoid large loads on any one network. For instance, I can imagine building a network of nameservers in which you peered the nameservers, colocated in every ISP you could think of. If you were backing the nameserver with Postgres, this would work. To be clear, this is _not_ the case with any product I've ever built, but it is a design I have seen deployed. That design was supposed to be on top of Oracle. There were well over 50 slaves. I don't really believe they had that many Oracle-using slaves, though. A -- Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 503 667 4564 x104 http://www.commandprompt.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
