| From: | Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de> |
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| To: | Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: table size/record limit |
| Date: | 2004-10-21 05:28:11 |
| Message-ID: | 1098336491.15791.3.camel@Andrea.peacock.de |
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Hi,
Am Do, den 21.10.2004 schrieb Dennis Gearon um 1:30:
> I am designing something that may be the size of yahoo, google, ebay, etc.
>
> Just ONE many to many table could possibly have the following
> characteristics:
>
> 3,600,000,000 records
> each record is 9 fields of INT4/DATE
>
> Other tables will have about 5 million records of about the same size.
>
> There are lots of scenarios here to lessson this.
>
> BUT, is postgres on linux, maybe necessarily a 64 bit system, cabable of
> this? And there'd be 4-5 indexes on that table.
Sure. Why not? 3...5mio records is not really a problem.
We had bigger tables with historic commercial transactions
(even on an old dual PIII/1000) with fine performance.
I bet however, yahoo, google at least are much bigger :-)
Regards
Tino
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