X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 637869DCA39 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:02:53 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31198-09 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:02:52 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from noel.decibel.org (noel.decibel.org [67.100.216.10]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B189DCA2C for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:02:50 -0400 (AST) Received: by noel.decibel.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 68D353983D; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:02:36 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:02:36 -0600 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: me@alternize.com Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" , Mark Kirkwood , Michael Crozier , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Autovacuum / full vacuum (off-topic?) Message-ID: <20060120190236.GM20182@pervasive.com> References: <60d5ipcw8y.fsf@dba2.int.libertyrms.com> <200601181115.51850.crozierm@conducivetech.com> <20060118225257.GY17896@pervasive.com> <43D01C68.3030204@paradise.net.nz> <20060120171214.GE20182@pervasive.com> <43D11E62.1080206@commandprompt.com> <20060120173406.GH20182@pervasive.com> <43D11FEE.5080701@commandprompt.com> <20060120174416.GL20182@pervasive.com> <0a0c01c61de9$7bc56f80$0201a8c0@iwing> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0a0c01c61de9$7bc56f80$0201a8c0@iwing> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE amd64 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.098 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.098] X-Spam-Score: 0.098 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200601/354 X-Sequence-Number: 16832 On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 06:46:45PM +0100, me@alternize.com wrote: > >Sure... I've never been asked to consult on our stuff, and in any case, > >I don't do web front-ends (one of the nice things about working with a > >team of other consultants). AFAIK IIS will happily talk to PostgreSQL > >(though maybe I'm wrong there...) > > iis (yeah, asp in a successfull productive environement hehe) & postgresql > works even better for us than iis & mssql :-) Just last night I was talking to someone about different databases and what-not (he's stuck in a windows shop using MSSQL and I mentioned I'd heard some bad things about it's stability). I realized at some point that asking about what large installs of something exist is pretty pointless... given enough effort you can make almost anything scale. As an example, there's a cable company with a MySQL database that's nearly 1TB... if that's not proof you can make anything scale, I don't know what is. ;) What people really need to ask about is how hard it is to make something work, and how many problems you're likely to keep encountering. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461