Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:01:03AM -0300, Jorge Godoy wrote: >> I can think that spreading processing requirements should be one. And >> distributing load another one. Disk space can be solved with new disks and >> tablespaces, but we can't yet distribute the load through several servers >> without partitioning. > > The cost of inter-node communication isn't nothing, though. It > strikes me as at least possible that the overhead of dblink is going > to be larger than whatever gains one makes from adding a new server. > For only 20M rows, I find it pretty hard to believe the gain is going > to be demonstrable.
I totally agree with you. But when your base grows, it might start getting interesting. I'd like to see some sort of data partitioning in PostgreSQL. -- Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
