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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Quesion about querying distributed databases
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 13:16:56 -0500
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On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 10:47 AM Igor Korot <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2025, 7:32 AM Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM me nefcanto <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Anyway, that's why I asked you guys. However, encouraging me to go back
>>> to monolith without giving solutions on how to scale, is not helping.
>>>
>>
>> We did. In addition to the ongoing FDW discussion, I mentioned read-only
>> replicas and Citus. As far as *how* to scale vertically, we can offer
>> general advice (more hardware resources, ramdisks for temp stuff, OS-level
>> tuning, separate disk mounts). But a lot of it is tuning Postgres for your
>> specific situation and your specific bottlenecks. Which we are happy to
>> help with. Once we convince you to not throw the baby out with the
>> bathwater. :)
>>
>> 8 Terabytes of data. A single backup took us more than 21 days
>>
>>
>> Something was fundamentally wrong there.
>>
>
> It could happen on an old and drained hardware... 😀
>

8TB databases existed 20+ years ago.  Like always, the hardware must fit
the application.

21 days to backup a database absolutely means *many* things were improperly
sized and configured.

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