Lincoln Yeoh wrote: > What's more important to such companies is the ability to scale over > multiple machines.
That question - how much work it is to administer thousands of database servers - seems to have been largely missing from this conversation. Apparently back in 2008, Facebook had 1800 MySQL servers with 2 DBAs.[1] I wonder how that compares with large-scale Postgres deployments. Ron [1] http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/04/22/1800MySQLServersWithTwoDBAs.aspx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
