From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: Jorge Godoy <jgodoy@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Multiple DB join
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:18:20 -0400
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:01:03AM -0300, Jorge Godoy wrote:
> I can think that spreading processing requirements should be one. And
> distributing load another one. Disk space can be solved with new disks and
> tablespaces, but we can't yet distribute the load through several servers
> without partitioning.
The cost of inter-node communication isn't nothing, though. It
strikes me as at least possible that the overhead of dblink is going
to be larger than whatever gains one makes from adding a new server.
For only 20M rows, I find it pretty hard to believe the gain is going
to be demonstrable.
A
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