Re: Table Partitioning in Postgres:

Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb@eskimo.com>

From: Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb@eskimo.com>
To: Greg Copeland <greg@copelandconsulting.net>
Cc: "Shridhar Daithankar<shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>" <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>, "PGSQL General (E-mail)" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-02-19T17:31:02Z
Lists: pgsql-general
> ignorant on the exact device details.  You wouldn't happen to have the
> skinny of those things would ya?  They still being made?

I wish, especially if they are the same price as regular IDE disks and the
Linux kernel supports them!

> Your comments really serve to enforce that IDE stinks and stresses that
> IDE should not be used where serious database performance is needed.
> Needless to say, I think we all already understood that.  ;)

Even more so, it shows the difference between server-clas computer
components and consumer-class computer components.  It's sometimes wearing
on the mind to get the finance guy at my company to understand why a
server with the same "specs" (using the term loosely) as a desktop machine
costs thousands more.  After long discussions extolling the virtues of ECC
RAM, redundant hot-swappable power supplies, SCSI hard disks, RAID-1, and
cooling requirements, I can sometimes convince him that there is a real
reason for the price difference.

Jon

>
> Regards,
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> Greg Copeland <greg@copelandconsulting.net>
> Copeland Computer Consulting
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