Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eXX9U-0002Lx-Ip for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2018 18:55:36 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eXX9T-0001kB-9E for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2018 18:55:35 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:1501:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eXX9T-0001k1-12 for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2018 18:55:35 +0000 Received: from smtprelay0186.b.hostedemail.com ([64.98.42.186] helo=smtprelay.b.hostedemail.com) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1eXX9Q-0006au-5y for pgsql-docs@postgresql.org; Fri, 05 Jan 2018 18:55:33 +0000 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.248.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.248]) by smtprelay05.b.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11D2832AF9C; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 18:55:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 616C76686572726540616C76682E6E6F2D69702E6F7267 X-Spam-Summary: 50,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org,:::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:599:967:973:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1312:1313:1314:1345:1359:1437:1515:1516:1518:1519:1534:1538:1593:1594:1595:1596:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2525:2560:2563:2682:2685:2828:2859:2933:2937:2939:2942:2945:2947:2951:2954:3022:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3350:3865:3867:3868:3871:3872:3874:3934:3936:3938:3941:3944:3947:3950:3953:3956:3959:4605:5007:6261:9025:9121:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:13069:13311:13357:13439:13894:13895:14764:21080:21627:30034:30054,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:2,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: wrist70_4d04cd584f655 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1423 Received: from alvin.alvh.no-ip.org (unknown [179.57.113.18]) (Authenticated sender: alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org) by omf08.b.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 18:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by alvin.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 082536EE; Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:55:27 -0300 (-03) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 15:55:27 -0300 From: Alvaro Herrera To: Steve Atkins Cc: "pgsql-docs@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: Is this still accurate? Message-ID: <20180105185527.awy3mv4ayr4chalm@alvherre.pgsql> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <7F963E79-CF4F-4E93-AA46-36E1817332D0@blighty.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170306-137-4415bd-dirty (1.8.0) List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk Steve Atkins wrote: > It's been useful a few times to reassure people that we can handle "large" > databases operationally, rather than just having large theoretical limits. > > Updating it would be great, or wrapping a little more verbiage around the > 4TB number, but a mild -1 on removing it altogether. I'd just add a 0 to "40TB" and be done with it. We have larger databases but this is a decent enough number. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services