[oclug]PostgreSQL Hardware

[Brad Barnett]

On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 23:47:36 -0400
"Shad Young" <shad.young at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Barnett" <bb at L8R.net>
> > > Keyword searches are a different kettle of fish and are not
> > > particularly relevant to the discussion.
> >
> > Ah, I get it.  You want to change the universe to make yourself
> > correct ;)
> >  I hate to break it to you, but since web servers _do_ keyword
> >  searches,
> > they are relevant to the discussion.
> 
> Web servers do keyword searches? So I have been wasting my time with
> databases and indexing services? *blink* All these wasted years. ;)
> 
> I think the point is rather irrellevant. With loads of memory and decent
> bandwidth the slowest computer you can buy today is more than adequate.
> Did we all forget that 486s used to run multi-transactional servers back
> in the good old days?
> 
> Save your money on hardware my friend, you won't notice the difference.
> 
> Shad
> 


My sarcasm meter just exploded.  You owe me big time Shad, they're hard to
replace.