Re: High-volume shop uses PostgreSQL

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 03:23, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > PostgreSQL does not do horizontal scaling at all, since the postmaster
> > can only run on 1 CPU, but it's good at vertical scaling, since it
> > can make use of all of the CPUs in a box. (Well, there's sure to
> > be a point at which there is so much activity that the postmaster
> > can't handle it all...)
>
> I seen some PCI cards that permits to have a shared memory shared
> between more boxes, I'd like know how much effort is required to permit
> postgres to run on two or more machine and have the shared memory shared
> between the boxes.

HPaq/DEC has a hardware/software product called MemoryChannel, which
does that for you. Of course, it only works with Tru64 and OpenVMS.

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per lot, in lots that are 60'x150'.
That is ~ California, Texas and Missouri.
Alternatively, France, Spain and The United Kingdom.