Re: Does anyone use in ram postgres database?

From: Alan McKay <alan(dot)mckay(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Postgres General Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Does anyone use in ram postgres database?
Date: 2010-03-26 14:20:28
Message-ID: 844129e81003260720n4ba8c132h957986d00341c821@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Ozz Nixon <ozznixon(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I have to ask the obvious question... as we develop solutions which must
> process 100,000 queries a second. In those cases, we use a combination hash
> table and link-lists. There are times where SQL is not the right choice, it
> is great for simplifying indexing and locks - but prior to SQL *we* had to
> write code guys... and it sounds like you too need to go back to old-school
> programming techniques.

Oh I hear ya! I'm in the IT team, and I told the SW designers some 6
or 7 weeks ago now that I don't think they should be doing this with a
DB.

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