On Jul 18, 11:50 am, deci...@xxxxxxxxxxx ("Jim C. Nasby") wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:30:48AM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > EnterpriseDB, a commercially enhanced version of PostgreSQL can do > > query parallelization, but it comes at a cost, and that cost is making > > sure you have enough spindles / I/O bandwidth that you won't be > > actually slowing your system down. > > I think you're thinking ExtendDB. :) Well, now they are one and the same - seems that EnterpriseDB bought ExtenDB and are calling it GridSQL. Now that it's a commercial endeavor competing with Greenplum, Netezza and Teradata I'd be very interested in some real world examples of ExtenDB/GridSQL. - Luke ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match