Re: What popular, large commercial websites run

On Thu, 2 May 2002 postgres(at)vrane(dot)com wrote:

> The only problem I can see your very long essay is linux file
> size limit. Well that is not postgres fault.

Dude, wasting 1.9GB is certainly *not* the OS's fault. Next time your
basement starts flooding, blame your basement for not holding all the
water you didn't ask for, and don't fix the pipe flooding it. What I
currently have is a drain that drains slower than the pipe is flooding
my basement. So, you would still think it was the OS's fault if I had
a 5TB cluster that was completely full, but once dumped and restored,
would only consume 100MB?

So yeah. Throw space at it, that'll fix everything. I'm off to go buy
the house next to mine so I can keep more of that water...

> I would think they are both equally involved.

Nope. Only have to switch once if we pick the right replacement. I've
upgraded postgres (the customer halting us has since relented) and we'll
see. But I'm not convinced it'll make any difference. MVCC is a losing
proposition in my opinion. Period.

Besides, this all started by some twit saying Postgres and Oracle are
interchangable. They're not. That's all I'm saying.

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