Re: Yet another postgres scaling question (use on AMD Opteron)

I don't think you're out of touch - I think the people I'm trying to
convince are.  The crux of the problem I am dealing with is putting forth
a robust argument for scaling PostgreSQL with 64 bit machines for
increasing database sizes - Opteron was a natural choice because it is an
inexpensive 64-bit machine.  The MySQL argument was put forth by
non-technical people who are have not thoroughly evaluated the differences
between the two and have been swayed by marketing arguments.

I guess what I am looking for here are real-world scenarios where
PostgreSQL has been scaled using 64-bit.  I as the technical person know
the performance and scalability differences between running large datasets
on 64 bit versus 32 bit machines and can put forth technical reasons for
scaling Postgres as such - real world examples of it would validate my
arguments.


> On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 01:05:54PM -0700, Fred Moyer wrote:
>
>> with a 32 bit machine, but as the data size grows an argument has been
>> introduced that going with MySQL would allow us to scale with smaller
>> machines (hold the flames please :).  I have optimized and tuned the
>
> I haven't used Opterons, but I'm curious how that argument works.  I've
> never seen any evidence that MySQL is better with large
> databases than PostgreSQL; am I just out of touch?
>
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