> It seems to me that the real solution is for me to stop using the database as an IPC system to pass somewhat time-critical data between processes. Given the time constraints I'm working under this unfortunately was the quickest route. At least for the first 5 minutes. :) I was wondering about that 1,500 updates/second. PostgreSQL is probably not the optimal solution for IPC. If you are trying to deal with passing this data among machines, memcached may be a good solution. Pretty easy to configure and clients for lots of languages. Blazing fast, too. Cheers, Steve ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
