From: Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>
To: zackchandler <zackchandler@hotmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Design question: Scalability and tens of thousands of tables?
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:23:43 +0900
Message-ID: <BE59CDA7-8FB6-4CC9-98EB-9516C8433BB7@myrealbox.com> (raw)
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On Nov 4, 2005, at 2:58 , zackchandler wrote:
> The problem is I am very concerned about scalability with having a
> different
> table created for each custom object. I want to design to site to
> handle
> tens of thousands of users. If each user has 3-5 custom objects the
> database would have to handle tens of thousands of tables.
>
> So it would appear that this is a broken solution and will not
> scale. Has
> anyone designed a similar system or have ideas to share?
One resource you may want to look at is Joe Conway's site:
http://www.joeconway.com/
He has a PDF available for download that may help you accomplish this:
OSCON 2004 presentation: Flexible Data Acquisition and Analysis
Joe's an active member of the PostgreSQL community and there's a lot
of good stuff there.
Hope this helps.
Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com
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