Re: Is it possible to work with big databases (up to 10Gb) under Postgres?

Hi Ivan!

Well, I don't have a 10 Gb database _yet_; but my
server manages 3 databases that currently total over
17 Gb without a problem. (Also, linking tables from
different databases by querying via ODBC and MS Access
works like a charm!)

I used MySQL for a while; and considered Interbase. I
moved from MySQL because you can't update one table
using data from another table via the standard update
SQL statement in MySQL.

I never went the Interbase route because at that time:
1. It only imported fixed-length text tables; and 2.
The email list I joined seemed dead. Things may have
changed since then.

The online documentation for PostgreSQL has been very
helpful; and the support on this email list is very
good.

I hope this helps,

Andrew Gould

--- Ivan Babikov <iab(at)qms(dot)e-burg(dot)ru> wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> Maybe this is one of those typical questions, but I
> have heard people
> complaining that Postgres is just for quite small
> bases, less than 2Gb.
>
> Now, we have to choose a free database engine for an
> inexpensive branch of
> our project and Interbase looks better in sense of
> capability to work with
> quite big bases (up to 10-20Gb). I am not sure that
> Postgres will work fine
> with databases greater than 10Gb. What does All
> think of it?
>
> Thanks in advance, Ivan Babikoff.

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