On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:01:03AM -0300, Jorge Godoy wrote: > I can think that spreading processing requirements should be one. And > distributing load another one. Disk space can be solved with new disks and > tablespaces, but we can't yet distribute the load through several servers > without partitioning.
The cost of inter-node communication isn't nothing, though. It strikes me as at least possible that the overhead of dblink is going to be larger than whatever gains one makes from adding a new server. For only 20M rows, I find it pretty hard to believe the gain is going to be demonstrable. A -- Andrew Sullivan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Everything that happens in the world happens at some place. --Jane Jacobs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings