Re: One big table or several smaller tables ?

From: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Jason Earl <jason(dot)earl(at)simplot(dot)com>, aarni(dot)ruuhimaki(at)kymi(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: One big table or several smaller tables ?
Date: 2002-02-22 19:33:58
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Aarni, Jason,

> My suggestion would be to put all of the data in one table.
> Especially if that would make the system easier to query. Believe it
> or not but 1 million records isn't really that big of a deal. I have
> tables with 17 million rows, and I generally use cheap commodity
> hardware.

You may want expert help or advice on performance tweaks for your
server, though. The default settings in postgresql.conf are not
intended for a million-row table on a serious server.

-Josh Berkus

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