On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:20 -0800, Ron Mayer wrote:
> Greg Smith wrote:
> > I'm not the sort to be too concerned myself that
> > the guy who thinks he's running a DW on a system with 64MB of RAM might
> > get bad settings, but it's a fair criticism to point that out as a problem.
>
> In defense of thinking about very small configurations, I've seen many
> cases where an enterprise-software salesperson's laptop is running a
> demo - either in a small virtual machine in the laptop, or on an
> overloaded windows box. Even though the customer might end up
> running with 64GB, the sales demo's more likely to be 64MB.
Although I get your point, that is a job for sqllite not postgresql.
PostgreSQL is not a end all be all solution and it is definitely not
designed to be "embedded" which is essentially what you are suggesting
with that kind of configuration.
Joshua D. Drake
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