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From: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Edoardo Serra <osdevel@webrainstorm.it>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postmaster using only 4-5% CPU
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:16:54 -0600
Message-ID: <20060324101654.GQ90527@pervasive.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:14:24AM +0100, Edoardo Serra wrote:
> >Now, for the interesting test.  Run the import on both machines, with
> >the begin; commit; pairs around it.  Halfway through the import, pull
> >the power cord, and see which one comes back up.  Don't do this to
> >servers with data you like, only test machines, obviously.  For an even
> >more interesting test, do this with MySQL, Oracle, DB2, etc...
> 
> I will surely run a test like this ;)

If you do, I'd be *very* interested in the results. Pervasive would
probably pay for a whitepaper about this, btw (see
http://www.pervasivepostgres.com/postgresql/partners_in_publishing.asp).
-- 
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



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