On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 23:25, Roman Fail wrote: [snip] > has every bit of redundancy you can order. While uncommon, the > backplane is one one of the many single points of failure!
Unless you go with a shared-disk cluster (Oracle 9iRAC or OpenVMS) or replication. Face it, if your pockets are deep enough, you can make everything redundant and burden-sharing (i.e., not just waiting for the master system to die). (And with some enterprise FC controllers, you can mirror the disks many kilometers away.) -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian | | because I hate vegetables!" | | unknown | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match