On 12/1/2006 11:40 AM, David Fetter wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:16:49AM -0700, Dave Price wrote:
>> I am no expert, but how about cascading so that you get get your
>> desired number of leaf nodes without too much load on the writable
>> master?
> 
> Pardon me for posting this private email to the list, but the problem,
> as I understand it, is the sheer number of slons which have to be
> running no matter how you structure the tree.

But each slon can run on another server, either the one it is managing. 
Or you could put slon's in groups of 100-200 a time onto dedicated boxes 
not running any database at all.


Jan

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