On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 12:35 +0100, Filip Wuytack wrote: > I've been lurking at both the bizgres and postgres mailing lists in recent > months to get some ideas for building a new db server. I saw some threads on > the 7k$ server and it sounds like the Opteron, lots of ram and raid10 is the > way to go. (my budget is +/- 6000 (=$10000)) Just don't buy Xeon MP, OK? > I'm also keen to > make use of PL/R inside Postgresql, so I presume this might put extra > requirements on the CPU side of things. It definitely will, but stats take effort wherever you calc them. > I would be very keen to hear what you would suggest for this setup or what > experiences you have to share. Thats a big set of questions you got there... Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend