Re: Implementing "thick"/"fat" databases

From: Frank Lanitz <frank(at)frank(dot)uvena(dot)de>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Implementing "thick"/"fat" databases
Date: 2011-07-25 08:06:56
Message-ID: 4E2D2420.8060900@frank.uvena.de
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Am 22.07.2011 21:15, schrieb Karl Nack:
> to move as much business/transactional logic as
> possible into the database, so that client applications become little
> more than moving data into and out of the database using a well-defined
> API, most commonly (but not necessarily) through the use of stored
> procedures.

Beside the points already mentioned, doing this will might cause bottle
necks if you have complicated transactions as the DB-cluster might can
not be scaled as good as maybe a farm of application server could be done.

Cheers,
Frank

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