Re: why postgresql over other RDBMS

is the host base configuration methodology in postgres superior to other
RDBMS.
is this something novel that postgres has come up with?

~Harpreet

On 5/26/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> A more interesting question is what sort of hardware you need for that
> >> actually to be a win, though. Loading a few tables in parallel sounds
> >> like an ideal recipe for oversaturating your disk bandwidth...
>
> > you don't actually need that much of disk bandwidth both COPY and CREATE
> > INDEX are CPU bottlenecked on modern boxes and reasonable disk
> > subsystems - spreading their work over multiple cores/processes can give
> > big benefits.
>
> Hmm ... I wonder if that's true for COPY BINARY ...
>
> regards, tom lane
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