Hi,

With some help and supports from people in this mailing list I was able to
set up and run Ingres2006 successfully -- many thanks!!

Currently, I have been trying to set up Ingres2006 to be able to perform
parallel query across multiple machine but I am not successful yet. I would
like to be able to create a table by horizontally partitioning across
different physical locations (I have a cluster of x86 64-bit linux
machines). The application I am running is heavily query-intensive -- a data
mining application (I am not concerned about high availability and the speed
of updating database)  and we would like to benefit from querying multiple
machines in parallel in addition to parallel querying using multiple CPUs on
the same machine and assembling the results from those machines.

I have the following questions:

1. Is it possible at all to use Ingres2006 to do the task described above? I
have been reading the SQL guide and found the example of partitioning a
table across different locations but I am not quite sure whether if the
table is partitioned across different machines, when I use SQL statement,
the results will be automatically assembled correctly?

2. I understand that I have to install and configure Ingres Net with
Distributed Option. I have been reading the Distributed Option user guide
but it seems like the guide describes mostly about distributed database
where different tables are located across different machines, it doesn't
mention much about partitioning. I would like to make sure that configuring
Ingres Net with Distributed Option will enable the task described above.
Once I configure Ingres Net with distributed option properly, I should be
able to create a distributed database that have tables partitioned across
several physical locations, right? I understand that I do not need the
cluster solution or high availability configuration (and I understand that
the cluster solution is not fully supported yet?)

3. Last but not least, I just noticed earlier today that Ingress 2006
Community Edition for Linux X86 64-bit machine is not available anymore but
it is still available as the Certified Edition. What 's happened?

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Regards,
Natthapol
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