>
> Wow. Your needs really *are* demanding. You might need to look into a
> high-end server to meet those kinds of needs - Sun has some *very*
> expensive hardware that can handle over 1/2TB of RAM, for example, and
> Cray makes supercomputers (even more *very* expensive) which can handle
> somewhere around 32 TB of RAM...
Well, that's too much money. We'd like to stay away from these options.
>
> You're sure you can't possibly put up with even a small amount of
> swapping?
Nop. Too many users. Xmas shopping brought us down for a few minutes, and
the rest of the time we were too slow.
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2005, at 11:00 AM, Max wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Our postgresql database is getting too big to be handled by one
> > server. We
> > need the database to be in RAM and cannot afford swapping. At the
> > moment,
> > we're using only 3GB or RAM, however our business growth is going to
> > drive
> > this number into the double digits zone, maybe triple digits.
> >
> > What are our options ?
> >
> > I am a little bit ignorant in this part of RDBM. Can we distribute our
> > tables across multiple servers (read server+postgres) and perform
> > distributed SQL queries ? If so, how does that work ? I am totally
> > resourceless!
> >
> > Thank you in advance
> >
> > Max.
> >
> >
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