X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23929DC9A4 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:36:26 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 94406-04 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:36:27 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from noel.decibel.org (noel.decibel.org [67.100.216.10]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32ADF9DC98B for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:36:24 -0400 (AST) Received: by noel.decibel.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9E85739820; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:36:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:36:24 -0600 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Tomka Gergely Cc: psql performance list Subject: Re: big databases & hospitals Message-ID: <20060117203624.GC17896@pervasive.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE amd64 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.093 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.093] X-Spam-Score: 0.093 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200601/261 X-Sequence-Number: 16739 On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:13:02PM +0100, Tomka Gergely wrote: > Hi! > > I need to write a few pages about Postgresql, to convince some suits. They > have a few millions of records, on a few site, but they want to know the > practical limits of Postgresql. So i need some information about the > biggest (in storage space, in record number, in field number, and maybe > table number) postgresql databases. > > Additionally, because this company develops hospital information systems, > if someone knows about a medical institute, which uses Postgresql, and > happy, please send me infomation. I only now subscribed to the advocacy > list, and only started to browse the archives. We have a customer that has around 5000 tables and hasn't had any serious issues from that number of tables (other than \d sometimes not working in psql, but IIRC Tom put a fix in for that already). As for raw size, 100G databases are pretty common. If you search through the list archives you can probably find some examples. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461