Neil Conway wrote:
>On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 11:54, Dennis Gearon wrote:
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>>There's no such thing as RAMDISK in Linux?
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>Well there is, but I assume that if you don't need to keep your data to
>survive reboots/kernel panics/power failures/etc., you probably don't
>need an RDBMS to begin with...
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Not necessarily. An RDBMS like postgres offers you the
advantages of a client/server architecture -- multiple
applications can interact "live" with the data, regardless
of whether or not the data goes to disk and/or survives
reboots, etc.
Carlos
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