Thanks for your reply Luke.
Bizgres looks like a very promissing project. I'll be sure to follow
it.
Thanks to everyone for their comments. I'm starting to understand the
truth behind the hype and where these performance gains and hits stem
from.
-Dan
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What about clustered filesystems? At first blush I would think the
overhead of something like GFS might kill performance. Could one
potentially achieve a fail-over config using multiple nodes with GFS,
each having there own instance of PostgreSQL (but only one running at
any given moment)?
While clustering in some circles may be an open-ended buzzword --
mainly the commercial DB marketing crowd -- there are concepts beneath
the bull that are even inherent in the name. However, I understand
your point.
From what I've researched, the concepts and practices seem to fall
under one of
Jonah,
I stumbled on this discussion in one of my recurring searches for an
open-source database app capable of true clustering (failover, load
balancing, etc) that I can pair with my PHP application. A search
that, sadly, most often ends in disappointment -- there's tons and tons
of database
