Wei,
> There had been a great deal of discussion of how to improve the
> performance of select/sorting on this list, what about
> insert/delete/update?
>
> Is there any rules of thumb we need to follow? What are the
> parameters
> we should tweak to whip the horse to go faster?
yes, lots of rules. Wanna be more specific? You wondering about
query structure, hardware, memory config, what?
-Josh Berkus