Re: [HACKERS] SAN, clustering, MPI, Backplane Re: Postgresql on SAN

2004-07-12 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Another thing I've been wondering about, but haven't been able to find any discussion of: Just how closely tied is PostgreSQL to its use of shared memory? Pretty damn closely. You would not be happy with the performance of anything that

Re: [HACKERS] SAN, clustering, MPI, Backplane Re: Postgresql on SAN

2004-07-09 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another thing I've been wondering about, but haven't been able to find > any discussion of: > Just how closely tied is PostgreSQL to its use of shared memory? Pretty damn closely. You would not be happy with the performance of anything that tried to

[HACKERS] SAN, clustering, MPI, Backplane Re: Postgresql on SAN

2004-07-08 Thread Andrew Piskorski
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:39:34PM +0200, Yannick Lecaillez wrote: > Thanks a lot for all people which answer. > > I have this "clustering on SAN" problem today and i think it could be > less harder to implement this today than it was for Oracle in 1993 You want to do clustering for failover/reli