| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Aleksey Tsalolikhin <atsaloli(dot)tech(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: How large can a PostgreSQL database get? |
| Date: | 2013-04-17 14:10:22 |
| Message-ID: | 20130417141022.GH4602@momjian.us |
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 06:23:41AM -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> Hi. I was promoting PostgreSQL to an AIX/Oracle shop yesterday, they are
> looking to switch to open source to cut their licensing costs, and was asked
> how large a database does PostgreSQL support? Is there an upper bound on
> database size and if so, what it is?
Well, anything over hundreds of gigabytes is going to require tuning,
and above a terrabyte is going to require partitioning. There isn't a
hard limit, but we don't see many serves over tens of terrabytes.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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