Re: No flamefest please, MySQL vs. PostgreSQL AGAIN

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 11:36 am, Will LaShell wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 05:08, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 02:21:21PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 10:32, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > > in 7.4 either.  Possibly 7.5.  In the meantime, third-party solutions
> > > > are still your only option, and PostgreSQL Inc's one is probably the
> > > > best.
> > > I wouldn't say they are your only options. there is the rserv code in
> > > contrib which I've seen people post they have gotten working. There is
> > The contrib/rserv code does indeed work for some people, and it is
> > useful.  It is nowhere close to handling large volumes, but for fewer
> > than a few thousand writes an hour, it seems to be good.
>
> I'd like to put my two cents in on this one.  We use rserv on our
> cluster here, and we do a few hundred writes every 2 minutes. The
> biggest thing that will cause slowdowns with rserv is not indexing the
> replication id field.  If there is an index for that it should work
> fine.

I tried rserv with a database that has over 1000 inserts per minute, and it
would just sit there for days at the "Preparing snapshot" (on a
Dual-Xeon/2GHz).  I hadn't tried indexing the id column though.

> I do have some rudimentary documentation on how we did it all, and I
> suppose I should really get that sent in.

Yes, Please, the documentation out there could definitely be improved with
some other case studies.