Re: Performance figures from DbMail list

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 15:04, Mikael Carneholm wrote:
>
>> This link adds to the joy...
>>
>> http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?25,93181,93181
>>
>> So the most popular free "database" in the world is a lousy performing
>> product that accepts 'gabba gabba hey' as a valid timestamp. Someone
>> please, give me a reason not to get cynical...
>>
>
> Oh man, that poor guy.  He's got 4 or 5 machines in a cluster, and he's
> still not catching up to the one machine postgresql server.
>
> And he's switching because he wants better reliability?
>
> Guess he's never heard of pgpool, slony, mammoth replicator, cjdbc, or a
> half dozen other ways to get high reliability with postgresql.
>
> I wonder what version of postgresql he was testing.
>
Please, remove pgpool from your list of "reliable" postgresql tools.
It's decent, but child procs tend to go zombie from time to time.

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