Re: I need minimum specs for running PostgreSQL

On Wed, 22 May 2002, David.Lofstrand@surgical-science.com wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Does anybody have some kind of minimum specs for running the PostgreSQL on
> a PC-server (cygwin)?
>
>
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Hi,

The thing with this kind of question is there are min specs and min specs,
since there are so many variable to take into consideration. Data load,
concurrency, usage (select -v- update / insert), indicies used,
structuring of query etc.

I'd be bold to say you'd get respectable performance from a Pentium PII
with 256K Ram on Unix. But Windows is well Windoze. I think you'd be
looking at a 500Mhz x 512Mb at min. But this is my opinion others will no
doubt tell a different story.

It's not much I know but you really need to provide a bit more information
as to the intentions of the server before you can realistically expect to
get a real life idea of hardware requirements.

Do you have this information?

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Wm. G. Urquhart
Custom Software Solutions
http://www.wurquhart.co.uk