From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: cydatamatt@gmail.com <cydatamatt@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How many tables is too many tables?
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:21:23 -0400
Message-ID: <1832.1127186483@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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"cydatamatt@gmail.com" <cydatamatt@gmail.com> writes:
> We currently have around 400,000 tables
> and I would estimate that the vast majority of these tables are
> relatively small (less than 200 rows).
Stop right there, and go redesign your schema. This is unbelievably
wrong :-(
regards, tom lane
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