On 05/18/11 11:39 PM, Szymon Guz wrote:

thanks for the answer. It is not a problem to have 3 oracle instances, in fact there will be hundreds of them probably, but could also be hundreds of Postgres instances :)

do you have any idea how EXPENSIVE 100s of Oracle RAC nodes are annually?

to share block storage between cluster nodes requires a cluster-aware file system, as conventional file systems do not expect the disk files to change behind their back. these cluster-aware file systems have a bunch of overhead in maintaining cache coherency between nodes, and such.

as far as I know, postgres can not be run on a read only file system, further its shared_buffer caches couldn't possibly be aware of other nodes modifying blocks that happen to be cached.



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