Re: MySQL -> pgsql

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Ron Chmara <ron(at)Opus1(dot)COM>
Cc: Andrew Evans <andrew(at)zembu(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: MySQL -> pgsql
Date: 2000-10-25 20:32:36
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0010252231420.790-100000@peter.localdomain
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Ron Chmara writes:

> When we went searching for "large data set" information, we couldn't
> find anybody doing this on postgresql, and decided that we didn't
> want to risk being first. :-)

Several people have had databases of 60 GB or more.

> Oracle, IMNSHO, sucks rocks for most things, but for scalabilty, the
> table-as-file metaphor has real problems once a single table needs
> to hit those insane levels.

When your tables exceed 1 GB, you get more than one file.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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