Stefan de Konink wrote: > Tom Hughes wrote: > >> That limit is not (primarily) about the cost of gathering the required >> data, though obviously that might become an issue as well, it's about >> the fact that we are holding the whole result set in memory (several >> times over in fact) on the rails server and those servers only have a >> finite amount of memory. > > In that case; it seems to get more valid for lookup to switch to a slave > server that doesn't. The generation of XML is only a translation task of > SQL, and even that can be done streaming :)
Yeah, it really is that simple, which is why us simple minded idiots that run the server are still doing it all in memory. Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev