[oclug]PostgreSQL Hardware

[Shad Young]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Tanguay" <ptanguay at magma.ca>

> With that being said, the biggest issue here is that we don't have enough
> data to be able to make an intelligent comments : the way to design a
system
> (and by system, I mean the combination of both the hardware and software)
is
> by designing the application, and THEN picking the hardware and applying
the
> most money to the components that need it most.  In my humble opinion,
> picking out the hardware first is a rookie mistake.   It unfortunately
> happens quite often, because buying hardware and spending money is "fun" :
> analyzing databases schemas and data flow, much less.

That was going to be my next point. Don't count your chickens before they
hatch. Nine times out of ten hardware is not the issue at all, it is the
application (hell its probably more like 99 out of a hundred, but anyway).
So many people throw money at hardware when they should be looking to their
code.

Shad