X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 324F8DA179 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:59:41 -0400 (AST) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09401-06 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:59:41 +0000 (GMT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from vms048pub.verizon.net (vms048pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.48]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B800DA015 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:59:38 -0400 (AST) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([68.239.91.220]) by vms048.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IQB00AJJM6NH4N1@vms048.mailsrvcs.net> for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:59:12 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D066005A5 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:59:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from osgiliath.mathom.us ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (osgiliath [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32155-04 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:59:09 -0500 (EST) Received: by osgiliath.mathom.us (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4C5D96003BD; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:59:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:59:09 -0500 From: Michael Stone Subject: Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases ( In-reply-to: <87ek59omex.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Mail-followup-to: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Message-id: <20051121195909.GP7330@mathom.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-disposition: inline X-Pgp-Fingerprint: 53 FF 38 00 E7 DD 0A 9C 84 52 84 C5 EE DF 7C 88 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at mathom.us References: <4381E077.80009@rentec.com> <87ek59omex.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 required=5 tests=[none] X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200511/424 X-Sequence-Number: 15681 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