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 6BE00D71C6 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:02:42 -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 27635-01 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:02:42 +0000 (GMT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from toad.mtbrook.bozemanpass.com (toad.mtbrook.bozemanpass.com [69.145.82.195]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C65ADD6D07 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:02:39 -0400 (AST) Received: from [69.145.82.218] (unknown [69.145.82.218]) by toad.mtbrook.bozemanpass.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC0CE11027B for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:02:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <437CEFFB.3060200@boreham.org> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:02:51 -0700 From: David Boreham Reply-To: david_list@boreham.org User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases ( References: <200511161550.jAGFoCY09049@candle.pha.pa.us> <437B578C.4000309@boreham.org> <33c6269f0511171150j24f2dd2bq607b69994338aa9@mail.gmail.com> <437CE847.3010101@boreham.org> <437CEAD5.1090106@rentec.com> In-Reply-To: <437CEAD5.1090106@rentec.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.000] X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200511/333 X-Sequence-Number: 15590 Alan Stange wrote: >> Not sure I get your point. We would want the lighter one, >> all things being equal, right ? (lower shipping costs, less likely >> to break when dropped on the floor....) > > Why would the lighter one be less likely to break when dropped on the > floor? They'd have less kinetic energy upon impact.