Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Tue, 20 Feb: > >that was only a temporary solution for RAC untill OCFS came along and > > "temporary"? Back in '99 Oracle wouldn't have had it any other way. When we
yes, temporary the way that punched cards were the best thing till magnetic media and interactive terminal were perfected. Get with the times. > Anyway, now that OCFS is out and about - would it be recommended for other > databases besides Oracle or is it too Oracle-specific? supposedly it's not Oracle specific, but it has really low I/O for anything else you try to do with it. it's more like "raw device you can look at and back up via the VFS", and it's useless if you are not running a cluster. does PostgreSQL even support running two instances of the DB on two separate nodes over GFS?! I don't think it does. that's available only from the big guns like OracleDB and DB2 probably. > I'm still digging postgresql.org and last time I went to a (large) book shop > I saw an entire section (about 6-7 shelves) about MySQL but not a single > book about PostgresQL. it's a bad bad bad statistics indicator, but I think you may find that on amazon.com (not co.au) the situation will be very similar. and then again, maybe MySQL is enough for the task? -- The bad boy of the .sig world Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
