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From: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Large tables (was: RAID 0 not as fast as expected)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:58:13 -0400
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On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 07:14:56PM -0400, Alex Turner wrote:
>If you have a table with 100million records, each of which is 200bytes long,
>that gives you roughtly 20 gig of data (assuming it was all written neatly
>and hasn't been updated much).   

If you're in that range it doesn't even count as big or challenging--you 
can keep it memory resident for not all that much money. 

Mike Stone

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