Re: Scalability in postgres

Dimitri  wrote: 
> Few weeks ago tested a customer application on 16 cores with Oracle:
>   - 20,000 sessions in total
>   - 70,000 queries/sec
> 
> without any problem on a mid-range Sun box + Solaris 10..
 
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.  Could you elaborate?
 
(If it's that Oracle doesn't need an external connection pool, then
are you advocating that PostgreSQL include that in the base product?)
 
-Kevin