Re: [PERFORM] ??: Postgresql update op is very very slow

2008-06-26 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
Hi - I have been following this thread and find some of the recommendations really surprising. I understand that MVCC necessarily creates overhead, in-place updates would not be safe against crashes etc. but have a hard time believing that this is such a huge problem for RDBMS in 2008. How do lar

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

2005-01-20 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:32:27 +0100, Hervé Piedvache wrote: > Le Jeudi 20 Janvier 2005 16:23, Dave Cramer a écrit : >> Google uses something called the google filesystem, look it up in >> google. It is a distributed file system. > > Yes that's another point I'm working on ... make a cluster of ser