"Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > As soon as a requirement for a database specifies extraction of the > maximum power from the box,
I don't for a second believe that this is your only requirement, or that this is even an actual requirement. If it really is an actual requirement, then I assume you're writing all of your code in hand-tuned assembly language, and that the document you consult most regularly when writing code is the CPU's instruction timing table. Another commodity box costs $1000, which is about the same as the cost to a company of a day's programmer time. What *really* matters is getting software delivered in a timely fashion, that is as correct as possible, and that will operate reliably over time and not cause data corruption. Marshall ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org