Transactional vs. Read-only (Retrieval) database

From: "Samuel J(dot) Sutjiono" <ssutjiono(at)wc-group(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Transactional vs. Read-only (Retrieval) database
Date: 2002-04-11 13:14:02
Message-ID: 003801c1e15a$c03c5450$110a010a@headquarters.wcgroup.com
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I'd like to get some opinions if there are any benefits (i.e. in terms of performance) of creating two separate databases, one for transactions (insert, update, delete) and the other one is for retrieval/search (select).

Thanks in advance for your input.
Sam
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