[elephant-devel] Re: Postmodern, Act II

[Leslie P. Polzer]

> this cache mode (and postmodern backend in general) is oriented on
> webserver-like workload -- each web request always is wrapped into
> transaction. if request does no DB activity, that's OK -- starting txn
> overhead is not that significant on scale of typical HTTP request time. but
> many requests reads lots of values from database -- on thousands scale --
> and sync cache makes big difference for this case.

This is interesting, I'm going to try it. Thanks.
I'd still consider the CURRVAL issue a bug that needs to be solved, though.

  Leslie