Re: Postgres low end processing.

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 11:42:54 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

=> Are you sure you want Postgres, and not something smaller? BDB,
=> or SQL Lite, for example?
I have considered various options, including BDB and SQL Lite, but
alas, it will have to be postgres if it's going to be a database. Otherwise
it will be back to the original idea of flat .idx files :(

=> "Postgres is bloatware by design: it was built to house PhD theses."
=> -- J. Hellerstein (who ought to know)
:o) Believe me, I've been amazed since I encountered postgres v6.3.2
in '98

=> But having said that ... given virtual memory and cramped configuration
=> settings, Postgres would certainly run in an 8M machine. Maybe "crawl"
=> would be a more applicable verb than "run", but you could execute it.

Crawling is ok. Won't differ much from normal operation on a machine like that.
Any tips on how to achieve the most diminutive vmem an conf settings?
I tried to figure this out from the docs, and played around with
backend/storage , but I'm not really winning.

Regards
Stef