Re: RFC: Very large scale postgres support

From: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: "Alex J(dot) Avriette" <alex(at)posixnap(dot)net>
Cc: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Very large scale postgres support
Date: 2004-02-09 02:20:07
Message-ID: 1076293206.48991.124.camel@jester
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On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 21:01, Alex J. Avriette wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:01:38PM -0500, Rod Taylor wrote:
>
> > Replication won't help if those are all mostly write transactions. If a
> > small percentage, even 1% would be challenging, is INSERTS, UPDATES or
> > DELETES, master / slave replication might get you somewhere.
>
> There is no way on earth we could be doing writes at that rate. I think
> that's a given.

Sure you can, if you can horizontally partition the data so clients A
are on machine A, clients B are on machine B, ...

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