Jeffery Collins <collins@onyx-technologies.com> writes:
> Does anyone have any experience with very large postgresql tables? By
> very large, I mean a table with ~38 million records, each record will
> have between 80 and 128 bytes (we are not sure of some column sizes yet)
> in ~10 columns with probably 3 btree-indexes. Basically the table will
> hold all of the Postal Service deliverable addresses in the US in a
> somewhat compressed form.
> My concerns are in the area of performance and robustness.
Should be OK as long as you are using a recent release (preferably 7.0).
Our support for tables over 2 gig used to be a little flaky, but it's
been wrung out...
regards, tom lane