We configured a slony1 cluster with a master and slave (both 7.4.6), and
used the slave to serve read-only queries thereby offloading some of the
work from the master database.
This worked well for us.
You could also take a look at pg_pool to distribute your load - but I
haven't actually used it, so can't give any advice...
Hope that helps.
John Sidney-Woollett
Max wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Our postgresql database is getting too big to be handled by one server. We
> need the database to be in RAM and cannot afford swapping. At the moment,
> we're using only 3GB or RAM, however our business growth is going to drive
> this number into the double digits zone, maybe triple digits.
>
> What are our options ?
>
> I am a little bit ignorant in this part of RDBM. Can we distribute our
> tables across multiple servers (read server+postgres) and perform
> distributed SQL queries ? If so, how does that work ? I am totally
> resourceless!
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Max.
>
>
>
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