From: Chris Mair <chris@1006.org>
To: Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgres and really huge tables
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:42:40 +0100
Message-ID: <45AFE9D0.6060205@1006.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45AFD927.9050605@janestcapital.com>
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> Is there any experience with Postgresql and really huge tables? I'm
> talking about terabytes (plural) here in a single table. Obviously the
> table will be partitioned, and probably spread among several different
> file systems. Any other tricks I should know about?
>
> We have a problem of that form here. When I asked why postgres wasn't
> being used, the opinion that postgres would "just <explicitive> die" was
> given. Personally, I'd bet money postgres could handle the problem (and
> better than the ad-hoc solution we're currently using). But I'd like a
> couple of replies of the form "yeah, we do that here- no problem" to
> wave around.
I've done a project using 8.1 on solaris that had a table that was
closed to 2TB. The funny thing is that it just worked fine even without
partitioning.
But, then again: the size of a single record was huge too: ~ 50K.
So there were not insanly many records: "just" something
in the order of 10ths of millions.
The queries just were done on some int fields, so the index of the
whole thing fit into RAM.
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 ;)
Bye, Chris.
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