| From: | "Mark Felder" <feld(at)feld(dot)me> |
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| To: | pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Aleksey Tsalolikhin" <atsaloli(dot)tech(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: How large can a PostgreSQL database get? |
| Date: | 2013-04-17 13:34:05 |
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On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:23:41 -0500, Aleksey Tsalolikhin
<atsaloli(dot)tech(at)gmail(dot)com> 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?
According to yahoo...:
http://glinden.blogspot.com/2008/05/yahoo-builds-two-petabyte-postgresql.html
...pretty big. But yahoo threw some programmers at it, I believe.
Straight out of the box? Not sure, but I'd expect many on this list have
databases larger than "enterprise oracle" shops.
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