From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: alex@neteconomist.com
Cc: Andrei Bintintan <klodoma@ar-sd.net>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] OFFSET impact on Performance???
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:57:00 +0000
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Alex Turner wrote:
> As I read the docs, a temp table doesn't solve our problem, as it does
> not persist between sessions. With a web page there is no guarentee
> that you will receive the same connection between requests, so a temp
> table doesn't solve the problem. It looks like you either have to
> create a real table (which is undesirable becuase it has to be
> physicaly synced, and TTFB will be very poor) or create an application
> tier in between the web tier and the database tier to allow data to
> persist between requests tied to a unique session id.
>
> Looks like the solutions to this problem is not RDBMS IMHO.
It's less the RDBMS than the web application. You're trying to mix a
stateful setup (the application) with a stateless presentation layer
(the web). If you're using PHP (which doesn't offer a "real" middle
layer) you might want to look at memcached.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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