Re: How many rows can postgresql can sustain

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Kumar S <ps_postgres(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How many rows can postgresql can sustain
Date: 2004-10-13 16:31:21
Message-ID: 20041013163121.GB10883@wolff.to
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:14:11 -0700,
Kumar S <ps_postgres(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> Dear group,
> I am wondering how many rows of data can postgresql
> efficiently deal with in comparision to Oracle that
> can deal with millions and millions of rows (I was
> told this fact by my senior).

In general Postgres isn't going to have a problem with tables with extremely
large numbers of rows. There may be certain queries that run slower in
postgres than in oracle (in particular certain aggregates) or other databases.

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