Tom, > Having to recompile to run on single- vs dual-processor machines doesn't > seem like it would fly.
Oh, I don't know. Many applications require compiling for a target architecture; SQL Server, for example, won't use a 2nd processor without re-installation. I'm not sure about Oracle. It certainly wasn't too long ago that Linux gurus were esposing re-compiling the kernel for the machine. And it's not like they would *have* to re-compile to use PostgreSQL after adding an additional processor. Just if they wanted to maximize peformance benefit. Also, this is a fairly rare circumstance, I think; to judge by my clients, once a database server is in production nobody touches the hardware. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org