Re: why postgresql over other RDBMS

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> A more interesting question is what sort of hardware you need for that
>> actually to be a win, though.  Loading a few tables in parallel sounds
>> like an ideal recipe for oversaturating your disk bandwidth...

> you don't actually need that much of disk bandwidth both COPY and CREATE
> INDEX are CPU bottlenecked on modern boxes and reasonable disk
> subsystems - spreading their work over multiple cores/processes can give
> big benefits.

Hmm ... I wonder if that's true for COPY BINARY ...

			regards, tom lane