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?
There is no real upper bound.
I think that backup will be a limiting factor, and you'll want backups.
Of course, sequential scans of really large tables will be very
painful, but that's the same for all database systems.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe