Hello,
I am planning to implement a system, where there is one Master database running on a Linux box with as many resources
asnecessary, and there are one or more client pc computers,with processor speed of 100 Mhz, memory of 32-64 Mbytes and
a10Mb/s network card.
The major task is that the clients should work on the actual state of data, which means the basic database (data,
unchangeablefor clients), and some statistical data on other clients, and they should not stop work when there is no
networkconnection to the master pc. They should give back their detailed transactions on the basic data to the master
pc.
For this reason I consider to run postgres on the client computers, but I am quite concerned about system overhead.
The clients will only do basic database work:
- selects from the database, without nested selects (or with nested selects with the maximum of 1-2 levels)
- writing their transactions into the database, with commit/rollback functionality.
- update some tables because of synchronization with master db.
- update some tables to summarize the value of transactions. (They could be done by triggers, but if they need
resources,there is an existing solution with basic operations).
Size of the database: The basic data includes 50-100.000 elements in 3-4 tables each, and much less data in other
tables.The number of tables is around 100.
I would like to know the opinion of experienced users of Postgres, if I can embark upon this road, or should choose
another way which uses an other db system with lower resource-needs.
Thanks in advance,
Gogulus