Re: [PERFORM] Postgres and Ingres R3 / SAN

2006-03-11 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, Ingres is based off of the same original codebase that PostgreSQL was based upon (a long time ago) This is wrong. According to Andrew Yu and others who date back to the original POSTGRES, development of Postgres involved several of the same team members as INGRES (most notably

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres and Ingres R3 / SAN

2006-03-08 Thread Jim Nasby
Adding -performance back; you should do a reply-all if you want to reply to list messages. From: Jeremy Haile [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Can you point us at more info about this? I can't even find a website for Ingres... Ingres is based off of the same original codebase that PostgreSQL

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres and Ingres R3 / SAN

2006-03-07 Thread Jim C. Nasby
Please don't steal threds; post a new email rather than replying to an existing thread. On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:58:32PM -0500, Jeremy Haile wrote: Clustering solutions for PostgreSQL are currently pretty limited. Slony could be a good option in the future, but it currently only supports

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres and Ingres R3 / SAN

2006-03-07 Thread Mark Lewis
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 13:00 -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: ... PostgreSQL on a SAN won't buy you what I think you think it will. It's essentially impossible to safely run two PostgreSQL installs off the same data files without destroying your data. What a SAN can buy you is disk-level

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres and Ingres R3 / SAN

2006-03-07 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:20:50AM -0800, Mark Lewis wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 13:00 -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: ... PostgreSQL on a SAN won't buy you what I think you think it will. It's essentially impossible to safely run two PostgreSQL installs off the same data files without

[PERFORM] Postgres and Ingres R3 / SAN

2006-03-06 Thread Jeremy Haile
Clustering solutions for PostgreSQL are currently pretty limited. Slony could be a good option in the future, but it currently only supports Master-Slave replication (not true clustering) and in my experience is a pain to set up and administer. Bizgres MPP has a lot of promise, especially for