>>>>> "pgsql" == pgsql  <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> writes:

    pgsql> The have a database of information that is coming in at a
    pgsql> high speed regular basis. One bit of information is a
    pgsql> value. To get this value they must perform SELECT
    pgsql> sum(field) FROM table. Well, this simply does not
    pgsql> scale. They've used a trigger system with a small summary
    pgsql> table where they update, the number in the sumary
    pgsql> field. That works fine, except, that after a few thousand
    pgsql> updates, the SELECT time takes a while. Then they have to
    pgsql> vacuum constanty. It just seems like an ugly and wastefull
    pgsql> process.

Sounds like something that TelegraphCQ can do well ..

http://telegraph.cs.berkeley.edu 

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