Re: table size/record limit

Google probably is much bigger, and on mainframes, and probably Oracle or DB2.

But the table I am worried about is the one sized >= 3.6 GIGA records.

Tino Wildenhain wrote:

> 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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