Re: Yet one more stupid question

From: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Dmitri Touretsky <dmitri(at)listsoft(dot)ru>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Yet one more stupid question
Date: 2002-12-04 20:39:48
Message-ID: 1039034387.11430.923.camel@linda.lfix.co.uk
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On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 18:00, Dmitri Touretsky wrote:

> One more question related to performance. I have a VERY BIG table
> (abot 20 million records) which is accessed relatively seldom, like
> once a day (basically, it's archived data which sometimes may be
> needed). How this table affect performance of the database? Is it
> worse to create another database for storing this data, and keep the
> main DB small?

It will make no difference to performance except when it is being used.

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