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From: Luke Lonergan <llonergan@greenplum.com>
To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>
To: Postgresql Performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Hardware/OS recommendations for large databases (
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:20:11 -0800
Message-ID: <BFA33F3B.1404F%llonergan@greenplum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7F33229E-AE95-436B-AB2F-01AC023DD7EE@khera.org>

Vivek, 

On 11/18/05 8:05 AM, "Vivek Khera" <vivek@khera.org> wrote:

> I can tell you from direct personal experience that you're just plain
> wrong.
> 
> up with my load on a 60+ GB database.  The Dual opteron system has

I¹m always surprised by what passes for a large database.  The poster is
talking about 5,000GB, or almost 100 times the data you have.

Post your I/O numbers on sequential scan.  Sequential scan is critical for
Decision Support / Data Warehousing.

- Luke 

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