Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB3EC632743 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:09:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12712-07 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:09:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from glacier.frostconsultingllc.com (glacier.frostconsultingllc.com [69.36.227.170]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05BF46339EA for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:09:51 -0300 (ADT) Received: from dsl081-245-111.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([64.81.245.111] helo=Sidney-Stratton.local) by glacier.frostconsultingllc.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeZQJ-0000x7-Il; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:09:50 -0700 Message-ID: <4C51E00B.2050703@agliodbs.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:09:47 -0700 From: Josh Berkus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090223 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vincenzo Romano CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: On Scalability References: <1280423526.8613.36.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com> <1280425184.8613.41.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201007/1531 X-Sequence-Number: 166720 > Do you think I should ask somewhere else? > Any hint? I might suggest asking on the pgsql-performance mailing list instead. You'll get *lots* more speculation there. However, the only way you're really going to know is to test. -- -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://www.pgexperts.com