Re: [GENERAL] Parallelizing PostgreSQL for Cluster

On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

# One of the long-term projects that PostgreSQL, Inc is planning on
# working on is exactly this, unless someone jumps at it before we get a
# chance to...

It should be a trivial change, right? :)

# On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Laurence Liew wrote:
#
# > Hi!
# >
# > Is anyone looking at making postgreSQL scalable across a cluster of PCs?
# > That is, we have postgreSQL exuting queries which can be parallelised across
# > a cluster, either something along Informix's method of fragmenting the
# > tables across multiple disks, or Oracle's method of using a shared disk
# > (global file)architecture.
# >
# > It would be interesting to have PostrgreSQL sitting on a Beowulf cluster
# > giving Informix XPS or Oracle OPS a run for their money :-)
# >
# > Thanks for any info.
# >
# > Laurence
# >
# >
# >
# >
#
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