White paper on very big databases

Hi all,

I'm planning to write a white paper telling the world that yes it's
possible to manager terabytes of data with PostgreSQL.

The idea is to explain how PostgreSQL can manage this, what's the
infrastructure needed to do so. We have to tell everyone that yes it's
possible.

I know many places where the existence of this white paper would have
been of real interest when PostgreSQL face detractors, let's say
pro-my-favorite-commercial-database (replace
"my-favorite-commercial-database" with every commercial RDBS name...).

In france, we have at least one place using a 4 Tb database, the
national forecast company (Meteo France).

I'm sure we all know other places in the world, I'd like then to digest
all those examples and tell the world "look how they do at X and Y:
architecture number one", "look like the do it at W and Z: architecture
number two", etc...

So I'm asking everyone willing to work with me on this topic.

The study has to be based on real usecases, so, the first thing is that
every usecase may become of public knowledge. So I don't want someone
telling me "we have 5 Tb here, we do it this way.. but shhh don't tell
my name". This will not work, because detractors may say everything in
the study is wrong, false and pro-PostgreSQL...

So if you have any comments regarding this project, its time to say it
here!

I'll be at FOSDEM this night, until sunday. Be sure I'm open for any
discussion there, and by mail, off course.

Cheers!

--
Jean-Paul Argudo
www.PostgreSQLFr.org
www.Dalibo.com