Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

2005-01-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:08:47AM -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Christopher Kings-Lynne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > PostgreSQL has replication, but not partitioning (which is what you want). > > It doesn't have multi-server partitioning.. It's got partitioning > within a single server (does

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

2005-01-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 10:40:02PM -0200, Bruno Almeida do Lago wrote: > > I was thinking the same! I'd like to know how other databases such as Oracle > do it. > In a nutshell, in a clustered environment (which iirc in oracle means shared disks), they use a set of files for locking and consiste

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

2005-01-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:12:42AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > >>then I was thinking. Couldn't he use > >>multiple databases > >>over multiple servers with dblink? > >> > >>It is not exactly how I would want to do it, but it would provide what > >>he needs I think??? > >> > >> > > > >Yes

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

2005-01-20 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> On January 20, 2005 06:49 am, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > Stephen Frost wrote: > > >* Herv? Piedvache ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >>Le Jeudi 20 Janvier 2005 15:30, Stephen Frost a écrit : > > >>>* Herv? Piedvache ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Is there any solution with PostgreSQL matching

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

2005-01-20 Thread Iain
Oracle's RAC is good, but I think it's best to view it as a step in the high availability direction rather than a performance enhancer. While it can help your application scale up, that depends on the usage pattern. Also it's not 100% transparent to the application for example you can't depend o

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

2005-01-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
1) pgpool does the load balance and sends query to Slony-I's slave and master if the query is SELECT. 2) pgpool sends query only to the master if the query is other than SELECT. Remaining problem is that Slony-I is not a sync replication solution. Thus you need to prepare that the load balance

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

2005-01-20 Thread Josh Berkus
Tatsuo, > Yes. However it would be pretty easy to modify pgpool so that it could > cope with Slony-I. I.e. > > 1) pgpool does the load balance and sends query to Slony-I's slave and >master if the query is SELECT. > > 2) pgpool sends query only to the master if the query is other than >SEL

[PERFORM] DWH on Postgresql

2005-01-20 Thread Matt Casters
Hi,   I have the go ahead of a customer to do some testing on Postgresql in a couple of weeks as a replacement for Oracle. The reason for the test is that the number of users of the warehouse is going to increase and this will have a serious impact on licencing costs. (I bet that sounds fa

Re: [PERFORM] Increasing RAM for more than 4 Gb. using postgresql

2005-01-20 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:36:35 -0500 Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The *only* way to avoid this is to go to a 64 bit processor (opteron) > and then > for greater performance use a linux distribution compiled for a 64bit > processor. Or NetBSD (http://www.NetBSD.org/) which has been 64 b

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

2005-01-20 Thread Edgars Diebelis
I have no experience with pgCluster, but I found: PGCluster is a multi-master and synchronous replication system that supports load balancing of PostgreSQL. http://www.software-facilities.com/databases-software/pgcluster.php May be some have some expierience with this tool? - Original Message -

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

2005-01-20 Thread Dave Cramer
This idea won't work with postgresql only one instance can operate on a datastore at a time. Dave Bruno Almeida do Lago wrote: I was thinking the same! I'd like to know how other databases such as Oracle do it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft

2005-01-20 Thread Randolf Richardson
"[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Wiles)" wrote in pgsql.performance: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:01:38 + (UTC) > Randolf Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm looking for recent performance statistics on PostgreSQL vs. >> Oracle >> vs. Microsoft SQL Server. Recently someone

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft

2005-01-20 Thread Randolf Richardson
"Ron Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote in pgsql.performance: > Randolf Richardson wrote: > >>> While this doesn't exactly answer your question, I use this little >>> tidbit of information when "selling" people on PostgreSQL. >>> PostgreSQL was chosen over Oracle as the database to handle all of

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft

2005-01-20 Thread Randolf Richardson
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote in pgsql.performance: > Quoting Randolf Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I'm looking for recent performance statistics on PostgreSQL >> vs. Oracle >> >> vs. Microsoft SQL Server. Recently someone has been trying to convince >> my > > I don't kn

Re: [PERFORM]

2005-01-20 Thread Mischa
No support for partitioned tables? Perhaps in name ... but I use a time-based "partition" tables that inherit from a base table; new partitions are "placed" (moved) round-robin on a set of drives. Somewhat manual, but if you really need a solution now, it works. Quoting Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [PERFORM] column without pg_stats entry?!

2005-01-20 Thread Tom Lane
Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bernd Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> there is no entry in pg_stats for that column at all!! I can only >> suspect that this has to do with the column being all null. > Someone else reported this recently and I think it is going to be fixed. Y

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL vs. Oracle vs. Microsoft

2005-01-20 Thread Tom Lane
Randolf Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Ron Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" wrote in pgsql.performance: >> Randolf Richardson wrote: >>> While this doesn't exactly answer your question, I use this little >>> tidbit of information when "selling" people on PostgreSQL. >>> PostgreSQL was chosen

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