On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 10:46, Josh Berkus wrote: > Jeff, > [snip] > > The other advantage (which I hinted to above) with raw disks is being able > > to optimize queries to take advantage of it. Informix is multithreaded > > and it will spawn off multiple "readers" to do say, a seq scan (and merge > > the results at the end). > > I like this idea. Has it ever been discussed for PostgreSQL? Hmmm .... we'd > need to see some tests demonstrating that this approach was still a technical > advantage given the improvements in RAID and FS technology since Informix > was designed.
Wouldn't PG 1st need horizontal partitioning, and as a precursor to that, "tablespaces"? -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "Man, I'm pretty. Hoo Hah!" | | Johnny Bravo | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
