Re: [GENERAL] Parallelizing PostgreSQL for Cluster

One of the long-term projects that PostgreSQL, Inc is planning on working
on is exactly this, unless someone jumps at it before we get a chance
to...


On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Laurence Liew wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Is anyone looking at making postgreSQL scalable across a cluster of PCs?
> That is, we have postgreSQL exuting queries which can be parallelised across
> a cluster, either something along Informix's method of fragmenting the
> tables across multiple disks, or Oracle's method of using a shared disk
> (global file)architecture.
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> It would be interesting to have PostrgreSQL sitting on a Beowulf cluster
> giving Informix XPS or Oracle OPS a run for their money :-)
>
> Thanks for any info.
>
> Laurence
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