On Thu, 2006-16-03 at 13:51 -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > On Wednesday 15 March 2006 18:14, Alen Garia - IT wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We are currently planning the deployment of our next generation > > enterprise database and we are wondering whether or not PostgreSQL could do > > the heavy lifting that would be required. My post is a little bit long but > > I hope it will provide you with information to allow someone to provide a > > definitive answer. > > > > The definitive answer is yes, PostgreSQL can handle this. You'll need to make > sure you have good hardware that matches the nature of your app (oltp/olap > and/or web/desktop). You'll probably want something that can do connection > pooling. You can get more help on the -performance list too, just make sure > you provide specifics. You might also want to look into getting commercial > support, though choice questions to the mailing list might be enough to steer > you on the right path. Yes this also looks like a good type of implementation for Slony or the Java clustering implementations. Both could provide fail over recovery and load sharing capabilities.
