From: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
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To: | Erik Jones <erik(at)myemma(dot)com> |
Cc: | Mikael Carneholm <Mikael(dot)Carneholm(at)WirelessCar(dot)com>, "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)tocr(dot)com>, David Goodenough <david(dot)goodenough(at)btconnect(dot)com>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Performance figures from DbMail list |
Date: | 2006-12-08 21:47:13 |
Message-ID: | 1165614433.3243.79.camel@state.g2switchworks.com |
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On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 15:44, Erik Jones wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 15:04, Mikael Carneholm wrote:
> >
> >> This link adds to the joy...
> >>
> >> http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?25,93181,93181
> >>
> >> So the most popular free "database" in the world is a lousy performing
> >> product that accepts 'gabba gabba hey' as a valid timestamp. Someone
> >> please, give me a reason not to get cynical...
> >>
> >
> > Oh man, that poor guy. He's got 4 or 5 machines in a cluster, and he's
> > still not catching up to the one machine postgresql server.
> >
> > And he's switching because he wants better reliability?
> >
> > Guess he's never heard of pgpool, slony, mammoth replicator, cjdbc, or a
> > half dozen other ways to get high reliability with postgresql.
> >
> > I wonder what version of postgresql he was testing.
> >
> Please, remove pgpool from your list of "reliable" postgresql tools.
> It's decent, but child procs tend to go zombie from time to time.
No, I don't think I will. I've used it and tested it quite thoroughly,
and have never had that happen. Bad hardware on your end maybe? Or an
older version, or a bad compiler?
I've found it to be very stable and reliable. If you've got a
reproduceable test case I'm sure Tatsuo (sp) would love to see it.
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