Re: Best system for a data warehouse application

Good to know, We haven't upgraded to 9.6 yet, however, but I'll suggest
that for this upgrade.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Yuri Paes Leme <yuripl(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/how-parallel-query-works.html
> So, IMHO, if you can use the 9.6.x version, more cores, more power
>
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 at 14:39 John Scalia <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> One of my system admins has approached me about replacing our production
>> data warehouse system. I believe I know the answer, but would just like
>> more opinions. He's giving me two options so far:
>>
>> 1) CPU = Intel e5-2637 3.5GHz 4 core with hyperthreading
>>
>> vs.
>>
>> 2) CPU = Intel e5-2650v4 2.2GHz 14 core with hyperthreading
>>
>> The rest of the specs are identical with 512Gb RAM and more than 2 Tb SSD
>> drives. Our data warehouse is just shy of 2Tb now. I suspect the the first
>> option would be more optimal as I don't think PostgreSQL can make effective
>> use of a lot of processor cores. So fewer cores would be better optimized
>> with the O/S. Can anyone weigh in on whether my assumptions are correct?
>> --
>> Jay
>>
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