From: Ron Peacetree <rjpeace@earthlink.net>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Is There Any Way ....
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:08:35 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <25743727.1128532115286.JavaMail.root@elwamui-chisos.atl.sa.earthlink.net> (raw)
From: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Sent: Oct 5, 2005 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Is There Any Way ....
>First off, Mr. Trainor's response proves nothing about anyone or
>anything except Mr. Trainor.
>
Fair Enough. I apologize for the inappropriately general statement.
>I'm going to offer an opinion on the caching topic. I don't have
>any benchmarks; I'm offering a general sense of the issue based on
>decades of experience, so I'll give a short summary of that.
>
>I've been earning my living by working with computers since 1972,
>
~1978 for me. So to many on this list, I also would be an "old fart".
<description of qualifications snipped>
>
I've pretty much spent my entire career thinking about and making
advances in RW distributed computing and parallel processing as
first a programmer and then a systems architect.
>Now on to the meat of it.
<excellent and fair handed overall analysis snipped>
>
I agree with your comments just about across the board.
I also agree with the poster(s) who noted that the "TLC factor" and the
2x every 18months pace of increasing HW performance and RAM capacity
make this stuff a moving target.
OTOH, there are some fundamentals that don't seem to change no
matter how far or fast the computing field evolves.
As usual, the proper answers involve finding a sometimes nontrivial
balance between building on known precedent and not being trapped
by doctrine.
Ron
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