On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Vlad wrote:
On 12/21/06, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Given the same physical hardware, which one is likely to perform
better? Does
>> it make any difference? Does using separate databases use more RAM than
a
>> single database with a bunch of different tables?
Config files are global, so I doubt it.
if it's a web app with persistent connections, then splitting onto several
databases may consume more RAM. Example: 100 apache clients connected to 3
databases creates 300 forked postmaster processes ; vs 100 apache clients
connected to the same DB using three schemas only takes 100 postmasters
-- Vlad
Using something like pgpool between the web servers and the DB should help
with that scaling problem...
- Marc
