On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 11:35:15AM -0500, Juan Casero wrote: > Can anyone tell me how well PostgreSQL 8.x performs on the new Sun Ultrasparc > T1 processor and architecture on Solaris 10? I have a custom built retail > sales reporting that I developed using PostgreSQL 7.48 and PHP on a Fedora People have seen some pretty big gains going from 7.4 to 8.1. I recently migrated http://stats.distributed.net and the daily processing (basically OLAP) times were cut in half. As someone else mentioned, IO is probably going to be your biggest consideration, unless you have a lot of queries running at once. Probably your best bang for the buck will be from an Opteron-based server with a good number of internal drives. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
