Ross,
I agree with you, but I' am the lowly intergrator/analyst, I have to solve the
problem without all
the authority (sounds like a project manager). I originally started this thread
since I had the $7k budget.
I am not a dba/developer. but I play one on t.v., so I can only assume that
throwing money
at the application code means one understand what the bottleneck in the code
and what it takes to fix it.
In this situation, the code is hidden by the vendor that connects to the
database. So, besides persisent requests of the vendor to improve the area of
the application, the balance of tuning lies with the hardware. The answer is
*both* hardware and application code. Finding the right balance is key. Your
mileage may vary.
Steve Poe
If, however, in the far-more-likely case that the application code
or system/business process is the throttle point, it'd be a great
use of money to have a test report showing that to the "higher ups".
That's where the best scalability bang-for-buck can be made.
- Ross
p.s. having said this, and as already been noted "7K" ain't
going to buy that much....maybe the ability to go RAID 10?
p.p.s Why don't we start a PGSQL-7K listserv, to handle this EPIC thread? :-)
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