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To: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: Steve Atkins <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Is this still accurate?
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 15:45:49 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Jan 5, 2018, at 1:33 PM, Steve Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2018, at 10:00 AM, Stephen Frost <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> * Moser, Glen G ([email protected]) wrote:
>
> That's really the gist of the concern from a team member of mine. Not
> that the 4TB number is wrong but that it could be misleading to assume that
> 4TB is some sort of upper bound.
>
> That's how this concern was relayed to me and I am just following up.
>
>
> Well, saying 'in excess of' is pretty clear, but I don't think the
> sentence is really adding much either, so perhaps we should just remove
> it.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> Here is a proposed patch that updates the wording:
>
> "There are active PostgreSQL instances in production environments that
> manage many terabytes of data, as well as clusters managing petabytes.”
>
> The idea is that it gives a sense of scope for how big instances/clusters
> can run without fixing people on a number. People can draw their own
> conclusions from the hard limits further down the page.
>
> +1.
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