Re: Offending My Tender Sensibilities -OR- OLTP on a Star Schema

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Roy Anderson <roy(dot)anderson(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Offending My Tender Sensibilities -OR- OLTP on a Star Schema
Date: 2014-02-06 18:44:57
Message-ID: CAOR=d=3p5AC-rfHmaHH5Xvsoh8aYL1q5wwV1SUuA+zZbiba8+g@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> *) Do not consider any advice to implement exotic storage backend from
> someone that has not previously implemented that same technology on a
> similar scale on a previous project, ever. Data of large scale is
> hard. Installing magical tool X often besides not solving the problem
> gives you another difficult problem to solve.

Merlin, this reminds me of the quote from Mencken: For every complex
problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

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