Re: PostgreSQL scalability concerns

If you'd like to get some more detailed information, there is a Postgres-HA
webinar on March 23rd that looks very interesting and should answer your
questions.

Direct Link: http://www.postgresql.org/about/event.347

-Daniel

On 3/17/06, Guy Fraser <guy(at)incentre(dot)net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-16-03 at 13:51 -0500, Robert Treat wrote:
> > On Wednesday 15 March 2006 18:14, Alen Garia - IT wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We are currently planning the deployment of our next generation
> > > enterprise database and we are wondering whether or not PostgreSQL
> could do
> > > the heavy lifting that would be required. My post is a little bit
> long but
> > > I hope it will provide you with information to allow someone to
> provide a
> > > definitive answer.
> > >
> >
> > The definitive answer is yes, PostgreSQL can handle this. You'll need to
> make
> > sure you have good hardware that matches the nature of your app
> (oltp/olap
> > and/or web/desktop). You'll probably want something that can do
> connection
> > pooling. You can get more help on the -performance list too, just make
> sure
> > you provide specifics. You might also want to look into getting
> commercial
> > support, though choice questions to the mailing list might be enough to
> steer
> > you on the right path.
> Yes this also looks like a good type of implementation for Slony or the
> Java clustering implementations. Both could provide fail over recovery
> and load sharing capabilities.
>
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