Comments on: Why Oracle makes me nuts

By: Devon

Devon — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:44:43 +0000

Thanks for the pointer! I didn’t know that Skype used postgres. Very cool.

By: Sebastiano Pilla

Sebastiano Pilla — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:23:19 +0000

>> Has anyone seen a very serious production system using PostgreSQL? I’m sure they exist, but I haven’t seen one.

I don’t have hard data on the size of their installation, but Skype does run on PostgreSQL… and given that they built their own tools to deal with their database clusters (https://developer.skype.com/SkypeGarage/DbProjects/SkyTools) I think it’s safe to assume that they have a fairly large setup.

By: Devon

Devon — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:52:52 +0000

This is the command, just in case that link above dies:

issuing the following command at SQL command line will fix it (after restarting the listener): “ALTER SYSTEM SET PROCESSES=150 SCOPE=SPFILE;”.