And on this issue, how does Postgres work better on the web server farm
that than other DBMSs?
I thought it actually had achilles heels in that kind of usage?
i.e.
One postmaster
No extents (or whatever thta word is)
Didn't work well with SAN's
Ben wrote:
>high: mainframe
>wide: web server farm
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>On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
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>>On Wednesday 17 September 2003 04:56 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
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>>>http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1482975508&fp=16&fpid=0
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>>I do not understand what people mean when they differentiate between scaling
>>vertically versus scaling horizontally.
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>>Would someone provide a brief explanation?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Andrew Gould
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