Re: Re: is PG able to handle a >500 GB Database? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Re: is PG able to handle a >500 GB Database?
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Msg-id 14352.980202914@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: is PG able to handle a >500 GB Database?  (Florent Guillaume <efgeor@noos.fr>)
Responses Re: Re: is PG able to handle a >500 GB Database?  (Florent Guillaume <efgeor@noos.fr>)
Re: Re: is PG able to handle a >500 GB Database?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Florent Guillaume <efgeor@noos.fr> writes:
> If, however, like someone else on this list, you have an application
> that does 200 requests per second, and that each request generates two
> updates, that's 1440000 oids consumed per hour, 34560000 per day,
> 12614400000 per year, oops that's more than 2^32, oids have wrapped
> around nearly three times in the year...

Updates do not consume OIDs ... only insertions of *new* rows consume
OIDs ... that may or may not matter here ...

            regards, tom lane

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