Neil, > Sure, but that hardly makes it not "usable". Considering the price of > RAM these days, having enough RAM to hold the database (distributed over > the entire cluster) is perfectly acceptable for quite a few people.
The other problem, as I was told it at OSCON, was that these were not high-availability clusters; it's impossible to add a server to an existing cluster, and a server going down is liable to take the whole cluster down. Mind you, I've not tried that aspect of it myself; once I saw the ram-only rule, we switched to something else. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org