Re: Two questions from the boss (SQL:2003 && scalability)

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 15:40, John Wells wrote:
> Guys,
>
> My boss has been keeping himself busy reading MySQL marketing pubs,
> and came at me with a few questions this morning regarding PostgreSQL
> features (we're currently moving to PostgreSQL).
>

I'd be interested to see what my$ql has to say about SQL:2003
compliance...

> While I don't think either are really that important for our
> situation, he wanted to know specifically whether PostgreSQL supported
> SQL:2003,

Well, certainly it is not in full compliance, but then who is? I would
say that most of the new features in SQL:2003 are not supported yet,
however if you run into a specific one that you could actually use post
to the list and you'll likely get a good work-around.

and what sort of capabilities PostgreSQL has to scale across
> multiple CPUs and hosts (multithreading, load balancing, etc).
>

Well, PostgreSQL can certainly take advantage of multiple CPU's,
although there are some cases where we could do more (use multiple CPU
on one query). You can also use a combination of tools like pgpool and
slony to set up load balancing depending on your needs... though I
should say that PostgreSQL has tremendous ability to scale up even
without getting into all the buzzword friendly schemes.

Robert Treat
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