On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:01, Jason Earl wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 12:05, Michael Meskes wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:41:45PM +0200, Daniel Seichter wrote:
[snip]
> > This is going to sound bad to users of Open Source OSs and
> > databases, but for all work that has to go into clustering machines
> > and making databases work with them...
> >
> > Why not use a clustered-by-design OS like VMS? It is very easy to
> > put a couple of dual-Alpha boxen cluster-connected via fiber to SCSI
> > devices. A cluster-aware relational database like Rdb runs on all
> > nodes of a cluster in a totally shared-disk environment. While both
> > nodes are working fine, half of the work goes to either node, and if
> > one node goes down, the other node still does all the work.
>
> I can't speak for everyone else, but I can tell you *my* reasons for
> going with PostgreSQL as opposed to a fancier solution like RDB on
> VMS, or Oracle on Solaris, or DB2 on whatever IBM platform sounds
> interesting today. PostgreSQL does what I need it to do without
> breaking the bank. Sure, it's a little extra work getting PostgreSQL
> to do something like hot failover (or load balancing), but when you
> can't afford the other options you make do with what you have.
Disregarding clustering, I agree with you completely.
> Besides which, PostgreSQL on x86 hardware is almost certainly the best
> value around. No one touches it on a price/performance basis, and
> PostgreSQL has an impressive array of features. For example, can I
> connect my Zope application server running Linux to RDB running on
> VMS? I don't believe I can (Oracle would work, however). PostgreSQL
> plays nicely with just about any set of development tools you might
> care to mention.
If it can connect via SQL*Net or ODBC, Rdb will talk to it.
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