[Tilesathome] Using RAM-drive for ROMA temp tables

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Matthias Julius wrote:

>> If on the other hand a standard interface can be established, so that
>> e.g. the server is faster when a "strip-xxx" request is done, but a
>> non-stripped request can be delivered nevertheless (as default) I would
>> say this could be a fine solution.
>
> The goal here is to make the database faster by limiting the amount of
> data that is stored in there.  So if a server only supports the
> "strip-xxx" request and no regular request it can do no harm.

I do not know how databases work in detail nowadays, but I thought not the 
amount of data itself is the limiting factor but the way it is stored. So 
when storing is optimized for certain requests a speedup should possible 
even without removing any information.

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