Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Herv? Piedvache <herve(at)elma(dot)fr>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering
Date: 2005-01-21 01:32:04
Message-ID: 20050121013204.GL67721@decibel.org
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:08:47AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Christopher Kings-Lynne (chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au) wrote:
> > PostgreSQL has replication, but not partitioning (which is what you want).
>
> It doesn't have multi-server partitioning.. It's got partitioning
> within a single server (doesn't it? I thought it did, I know it was
> discussed w/ the guy from Cox Communications and I thought he was using
> it :).

No, PostgreSQL doesn't support any kind of partitioning, unless you
write it yourself. I think there's some work being done in this area,
though.
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