Em Thursday 25 October 2007 13:36:09 tfinneid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx escreveu: > > Regarding dumps and restore; the system will always be offline during > those operations and it will be so for several days, because a new project > might start at another location in the world, so the travelling there > takes time. In the mean time, all admin tasks can be performed without > problems, even backup operations that take 3 days. This sounds a lot like oil exploration... Data gathered from sensors is usually a few TBs, explosions have definite intervals, interference between sensors, etc. Putting the data inside the DB fast is part of the solution, getting it out fast to be processes / analyzed is another part. -- Jorge Godoy <jgodoy@xxxxxxxxx> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/