Have you already considered application/database tuning? Adding
indexes? shared_buffers large enough? etc.
Your database doesn't seem that large for the hardware you've already
got. I'd hate to spend $7k and end up back in the same boat. :)
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 13:04 +0000, Steve Poe wrote:
> >Steve, can we clarify that you are not currently having any performance
> >issues, you're just worried about failure? Recommendations should be based
> >on whether improving applicaiton speed is a requirement ...
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> Josh,
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> The priorities are: 1)improve safety/failure-prevention, 2) improve
> performance.
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> The owner of the company wants greater performance (and, I concure to
> certain degree), but the owner's vote is only 1/7 of the managment team.
> And, the rest of the management team is not as focused on performance.
> They all agree in safety/failure-prevention.
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