Re: RFC: Very large scale postgres support

On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 21:01, Alex J. Avriette wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:01:38PM -0500, Rod Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Replication won't help if those are all mostly write transactions. If a
> > small percentage, even 1% would be challenging, is INSERTS, UPDATES or
> > DELETES, master / slave replication might get you somewhere.
> 
> There is no way on earth we could be doing writes at that rate. I think
> that's a given.

Sure you can, if you can horizontally partition the data so clients A
are on machine A, clients B are on machine B, ...