Whoever, as an attempt at snark and derision towards the Pi user community it's pretty weak and falls flat on its face because 1,200,000 records of a normal sort of row size without BLOBs and large chunks of text is quite a trivial DB. In most cases a 1GB buffer cache would be more than plenty for such a tiny database. A Pi 400 would take care of all that no problem.Who are you quoting?"I want to run a 1,200,000 record PostgreSQL database on a keyboard"
A lot of people? And out of interest what is your use case that needs 16GB that means 8 is restrictive?
I like the idea of a self contained keyboard/computer with effective passive cooling (which is enabled by the form factor) that could consolidate multiple functions to a single host. Unfortunately the Pi 500 is not it. I do realise my requirement is actually not mainstream however this attitude: "I don't see the point in that myself so nobody else should" is really quite narrow-minded. And quite amusing when a thread turns into an echo chamber.
My Pi5 runs two databases under a Postgres instance, they are doing data collection 24x7, but I've previously been running several other projects across multiple Pis, but now I have a single Pi running with all those projects, mostly in containers and at the same time that one Pi provides the audio-visual entertainment for the office when I'm in there. When I'm not, full screen over Pi Connect effectively gives me. Pi laptop.
the decluttering of cables and PSUs and release of switch ports has been very useful. All enabled by the 16GB Pi that Raspberry Pi brought to market but Raspberry Pi also imply that nobody needs and people only buy them because they are idiots. As a prime idiot myself, I've broken past 8GB RAM use quite easily.
<sanctimony>"what do you want to do that for? I've never needed to do that, my Pi4 2GB is more than enough for me to run my web browsing and libreoffice"</sanctimony>
Statistics: Posted by andrew_pi — Tue Jan 21, 2025 8:35 am
