| From: | Jack(dot)O'Sullivan(at)tessella(dot)com | 
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | CLOB & BLOB limitations in PostgreSQL | 
| Date: | 2014-04-11 14:45:14 | 
| Message-ID: | OF312B1274.D3B65F45-ON80257CB7.004BA4DA-80257CB7.00510BD0@tessella.co.uk | 
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I am working for a client who is interested in migrating from Oracle to 
Postgres. Their database is currently ~20TB in size, and is growing. The 
biggest table in this database is effectively a BLOB store and currently 
has around 1 billion rows.
From reading around Postgres, there are a couple of limits which are 
concerning in terms of being able to migrate this database. We are not up 
against these limits just yet, but it is likely that they will be a 
potential blocker within the next few years.
1) Table can be maximum of 32TB (http://www.postgresql.org/about/)
2) When storing bytea or text datatypes there is a limit of 4 billion 
entries per table (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/BinaryFilesInDB)
With both of these, are they hard limits or can they be worked around with 
partitioning of tables? Could we set the table up in such a way that each 
child table was limited, but there was no limit on the number of children?
With point two, does this mean that any table with a bytea datatype is 
limited to 4 billion rows (which would seem in conflict with the 
"unlimited rows" shown by http://www.postgresql.org/about)? If we had rows 
where the bytea was a "null" entry would they contribute towards this 
total or is it 4 billion non-null entries?
Thanks.
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