Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Actually this is not true. Although I have yet to test 8.3. It is > pretty much common knowledge that after 8 cores the acceleration of > performance drops with PostgreSQL... > > This has gotten better every release. 8.1 for example handles 8 cores > very well, 8.0 didn't and 7.4 well.... :) I agree with the spirit of what you say, but are you overstating things a bit? Benchmarks I see[1] suggest that 8.1.2 scaled pretty reasonably to 16 cores (from the chart on page 9 in the link below). But yeah, 8.0 scaled to maybe 2 cores if you're lucky. :-) Agree with the rest of the things you say, tho. It's getting way better every recent release. [1] http://www.pgcon.org/2007/schedule/attachments/22-Scaling%20PostgreSQL%20on%20SMP%20Architectures%20--%20An%20Update ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
