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?

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