Received: from localhost (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E52F9FB4C6; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:01:35 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.182]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 99731-02; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:01:28 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server227.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.227]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 162759FB304; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:01:31 -0400 (AST) X-EthosMedia-Virus-Scanned: no infections found Received: from [64.81.245.111] (account josh@agliodbs.com HELO [192.168.1.27]) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP-TLS id 11229682; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:05:23 -0800 From: Josh Berkus Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com Organization: Aglio Database Solutions To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Postgres and really huge tables Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:04:12 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 Cc: Chris Mair , Brian Hurt , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org References: <4939.1164740825@sss.pgh.pa.us> <45AFD927.9050605@janestcapital.com> <45AFE9D0.6060205@1006.org> In-Reply-To: <45AFE9D0.6060205@1006.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701191604.13850.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200701/63 X-Sequence-Number: 10545 > A lot of data, but not a lot of records... I don't know if that's > valid. I guess the people at Greenplum and/or Sun have more exciting > stories ;) Not really. Pretty much multi-terabyte tables are fine on vanilla PostgreSQL if you can stick to partitioned and/or indexed access. If you need to do unindexed fishing expeditions on 5tb of data, then talk to Greenplum. http://www.powerpostgresql.com/Downloads/terabytes_osc2005.pdf -- --Josh Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco