Re: Very large table... - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Very large table...
Date
Msg-id 16230.961025431@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Very large table...  (Jeffery Collins <collins@onyx-technologies.com>)
List pgsql-general
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

pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: "Roderick A. Anderson"
Date:
Subject: Re: two postgres servers on one machine?
Next
From: "Robert B. Easter"
Date:
Subject: Re: PL/TCL spi_exec insert problem