On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 03:31:55PM -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote: > various people (not database experts) are pushing to install Oracle > cluster so that they can move all of these to one table with a customerID > column. Well, you will always have to deal with the sort of people who will base their technical prescriptions on the shiny ads they read in SuperGlobalNetworkedExecutiveGoFast, or whatever rag they're reading these days. I usually encourage such people actually to perform the analysis of the license, salary, contingency, and migrations costs (and do a similar analysis myself, actually, so when they have overlooked the 30 things that individually cost $1million a piece, I can point them out). More than one jaw has had to be picked up off the floor when presented with the bill for RAC. Frequently, people discover that it is a good way to turn your tidy money-making enterprise into a giant money hole that produces a sucking sound on the other end of which is Oracle Corporation. All of that aside, I have pretty severe doubts that RAC would be a win for you. A big honkin' single database in Postgres ought to be able to do this too, if you throw enough hardware money at it. But it seems a waste to re-implement something that's already apparently working for you in favour of something more expensive that you don't seem to need. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do sir? --attr. John Maynard Keynes
