On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:13:24AM +0300, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: > > I think, apart from postgresql you gotta get familiar with the linux/*bsd/unix > concepts as well, as sometimes performance has to do with OS tuning too. Let me echo that, because it's extremely important: when I was in charge of hiring people to work on our databases, I was very concerned not to get the sort of people who felt that the system was "the sysadmin's problem". You _cannot_ treat the operating system as not your problem when addressing performance questions in PostgreSQL. This is a very unfamiliar situation to most Oracle and some DB2 administrators, in my experience. The good ones, of course, have no problem catching on; the bad ones never deserved the name DBA anyway ;-) A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Users never remark, "Wow, this software may be buggy and hard to use, but at least there is a lot of code underneath." --Damien Katz
