On 2 Sep 2005, at 10:42, Richard Huxton wrote:
> Ricardo Humphreys wrote:
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>> Hi all.
>> In a cluster, is there any way to use the main memory of the
>> other nodes instead of the swap? If I have a query with many sub-
>> queries and a lot of data, I can easily fill all the memory in a
>> node. The point is: is there any way to continue using the main
>> memory from other nodes in the same query instead of the swap?
>>
>
> I don't know of any clustered version of PG that can spread queries
> over multiple machines. Can I ask what you are using?
IIRC GreenPlums DeepGreen MPP (Version 2) can do it. It does cost
money though, but it is a very nice product.
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> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
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