Re: Seeking insight from heavy lifters

What are the transfering from, exactly?

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John Wells wrote:
> A manager friend of mine sent me the following concern.  He's preparing to
> shift to Postgresql from a proprietary DB and 4gl system:
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> To that end, I've also started studying up on Postgresql.  It seems to
> have all the necessary features for a transaction heavy DB.  The recent
> release is 7.3.  Of course, "the proof will be in the pudding."  We
> average 2.5 million transactions per day or 800 per second.
> Unfortunately, we would have no way of testing that until we committed to
> getting the business logic moved over and had something to test it with.
> This is a bit of a "catch 22" situation.  Just wished I knew of someone
> locally who was running Postgresql in such a heavy environment.  I'd love
> to find out how it performs for them. -----------
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> While I have a lot of experience with PG, it's not really been in a heavy
> processing environment.  Could I get some input to send him from anyone
> out in the field using Postgres in a similar environment.
>
> If PG isn't the best option here, what is?
>
> Thanks very much for your input!
>
> John
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