Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Shiva Sarna <shiva.sarna@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> Hi, >> >> I am working on a web application where the front end is struts framework >> and back end is PgSQL 7.4. *cough*, you are going to greatly decrease your ability to scale if you are running anything less than 8.1. > > Performance _will_ degrade if all of those connections are busy at once, but > that's going to happen with any shared system. The disk can only read from > one area at a time, and other system resources will be contended for as well. 7.4 doesn't scale to what he wants, even on big hardware. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/