Re: PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Cc: Hervé Piedvache <herve@elma.fr>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-01-20T15:08:47Z
Lists: pgsql-performance
* Christopher Kings-Lynne (chriskl@familyhealth.com.au) wrote:
> PostgreSQL has replication, but not partitioning (which is what you want).

It doesn't have multi-server partitioning..  It's got partitioning
within a single server (doesn't it?  I thought it did, I know it was
discussed w/ the guy from Cox Communications and I thought he was using
it :).

> So, your only option is Oracle or another very expensive commercial 
> database.

Or partition the data at the application layer.

	Stephen