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From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases (
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:59:09 -0500
Message-ID: <20051121195909.GP7330@mathom.us> (raw)
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 02:01:26PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
>I also fear that heading in that direction could push Postgres even further
>from the niche of software that works fine even on low end hardware into the
>realm of software that only works on high end hardware. It's already suffering
>a bit from that.

Well, there are are alread a bunch of open source DB's that can handle
the low end. postgres is the closest thing to being able to handle the
high end.

Mike Stone



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