Re: [GENERAL] Clustering, parallelised operating system, super-computing

2010-08-18 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Thursday, May 13, 2010 11:51:08 pm Brian Modra wrote: > Maybe the best way to solve this is not to do automatic distribution > of the data, but rather to provide tools for implementing distributed > references and joins. Here's my vote! I'd *LOVE* it if I could do a simple cross-database join

Re: [GENERAL] Clustering, parallelised operating system, super-computing

2010-05-13 Thread Brian Modra
On 14/05/2010, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Brian Modra wrote: >> Hi, >> I've been told that PostgreSQL and other similar databases don't work >> well on a parallelised operating system because they make good use of >> shared memory which does not cross the boundary between nodes in a >> cluster. >> >>

Re: [GENERAL] Clustering, parallelised operating system, super-computing

2010-05-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Brian Modra wrote: > Hi, > I've been told that PostgreSQL and other similar databases don't work > well on a parallelised operating system because they make good use of > shared memory which does not cross the boundary between nodes in a > cluster. > > So I am wondering if any work is being done t

[GENERAL] Clustering, parallelised operating system, super-computing

2010-05-13 Thread Brian Modra
Hi, I've been told that PostgreSQL and other similar databases don't work well on a parallelised operating system because they make good use of shared memory which does not cross the boundary between nodes in a cluster. So I am wondering if any work is being done to make it possible to have a sing