How to avoid large tables - WAS RE: Fast Inserts and H ardware Questions

From: "Creager, Robert S" <CreagRS(at)LOUISVILLE(dot)STORTEK(dot)COM>
To: "'adb'" <adb(at)Beast(dot)COM>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: How to avoid large tables - WAS RE: Fast Inserts and H ardware Questions
Date: 2001-03-15 01:06:43
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Alex (or any one else),

How would you suggest avoiding large tables? I attempting to develop an
application which might see as much as 6M records inserted a day during peak
times. Thankfully, this is a volunteer effort, so no real pressure for me
to solve this problem quickly.

Later,
Rob

Robert Creager
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: adb [mailto:adb(at)Beast(dot)COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 5:15 PM
> To: Orion Henry
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Fast Inserts and Hardware Questions
>
>
> What I would be most concered about is a table that grows by
> a few million
> rows a week, that to me seems like a liability in itself since
> maintenance on that table will get pretty slow after a few months.
>
> Alex.
>

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