Re: Basic questions before start

scott.marlowe wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Gogulus wrote:
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>>As the clients should be able to work without network connection, they
>>have to have a local database, and if net connection is on, do the
>>synchronization with master db. The main idea is, sale cannot stop
>>because of net connection breakage.
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>>That's why I am asking if 100 Mhz of CPU, 32 Mbytes of RAM can take care
>>of a database with around 100 tables, 3-4 of these tables having
>>50-60000 of records, others have at most 1000.
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>I would say yes, but I would also say that you should design this around a
>character based interface. The overhead of a GUI is gonna make it much
>slower.
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>I don't know if you're familiar with the ncurses library, but that's what
>I'd use, along with C or a lightweight scripting language like Perl or
>PHP.
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Well, the whole application is written in C or C++ after redesign. It
has to be, because the PC needs to cooperate with a special driver
handling special hardwares connected to the PC. The GUI is already
implemented using SVGALib and MicroWin. So I wanna say, not only PGSQL
will run on it... And it is all on Red Hat 7.1 because of driver limitation.

Gogulus

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