Greg Stark wrote: > I also fear that heading in that direction could push Postgres even further > from the niche of software that works fine even on low end hardware into the > realm of software that only works on high end hardware. It's already suffering > a bit from that.
What's high end hardware for you? I do development on a Celeron 533 machine with 448 MB of RAM and I find it to work well (for a "slow" value of "well", certainly.) If you're talking about embedded hardware, that's another matter entirely and I don't think we really support the idea of running Postgres on one of those things. There's certainly true in that the memory requirements have increased a bit, but I don't think it really qualifies as "high end" even on 8.1. -- Alvaro Herrera Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org Jude: I wish humans laid eggs Ringlord: Why would you want humans to lay eggs? Jude: So I can eat them ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
