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From: Sean Levy <snl@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Bodo Parady - SMCC Architecture Performance Group <Bodo.Parady@eng.SUN.COM>
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: Message passing version of Postgres
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 13:37:51 EDT
Message-ID: <9407141737.AA14648@arete.edrc.cmu.edu> (raw)
References: <+cmu.andrew.internet.postgres+Ai1SrQC00UfA00vsV:@andrew.cmu.edu>

We have looked at modifying postgres to use ISIS as its communications
subsystem instead of sockets.  The diffs would be rather complex, and
we have some pretty severe time constraints, so we backed off and are
now pursuing a strategy of leaving postgres itself alone, but some
server programs which are accessed via ISIS and which themselves talk
to postgres via the normal libpq mechanisms.  Our implementation is
not quite up yet, but it looks like it is a workable solution although
not as scalable as it would've been if ISIS had been in there at a
lowlevel.  As PVM doesn't really address scalability, though, this
probably wouldn't be an issue for you.  In principle, the same
approach could be taken with PVM for a "cheap" first shot.  I'm not
familiar with MPI.

Good luck,
				-- Sean

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