On Jan 25, 2006, at 18:43 , Kleynhans, Hendrik wrote:
If I am looking to access large amounts of data, such as in a data center, would it be better to run a/several database servers and accessing them across the network?
If you want *access* (i.e., select only, not modifying data), you might want to look at Slony for database replication. You can have your applications access the slaves. All modification would be done on the master.
http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/slony1/projdisplay.php Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com