Re: [HACKERS] SAN, clustering, MPI, Backplane Re: Postgresql on SAN

2004-07-12 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another thing I've been wondering about, but haven't been able to find any discussion of: Just how closely tied is PostgreSQL to its use of shared memory? Pretty damn closely. You would not be happy with the performance of anything that

Re: [HACKERS] SAN, clustering, MPI, Backplane Re: Postgresql on

2004-07-09 Thread Yannick Lecaillez
Le jeu 08/07/2004 à 14:22, Andrew Piskorski a écrit : You want to do clustering for failover/reliability reasons, for performance/scalability reasons, or for both? for all that of course :) For some stuff to read, see the dozen or so links I posted here:

Re: [HACKERS] SAN, clustering, MPI, Backplane Re: Postgresql on SAN

2004-07-09 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another thing I've been wondering about, but haven't been able to find any discussion of: Just how closely tied is PostgreSQL to its use of shared memory? Pretty damn closely. You would not be happy with the performance of anything that tried to

[HACKERS] SAN, clustering, MPI, Backplane Re: Postgresql on SAN

2004-07-08 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:39:34PM +0200, Yannick Lecaillez wrote: Thanks a lot for all people which answer. I have this clustering on SAN problem today and i think it could be less harder to implement this today than it was for Oracle in 1993 You want to do clustering for