Re: How big a database will PostgreSQL support? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Marten Feldtmann
Subject Re: How big a database will PostgreSQL support?
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Msg-id 200004130510.HAA11143@feki.toppoint.de
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In response to How big a database will PostgreSQL support?  (Damien Tougas <dtougas@converging.net>)
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> Hello,
>
> Also, in terms of database design, am I better off having one big table
> with 10 million rows or 1000 tables with 10000 rows?
>

 In terms of speed I've found out, that on large tables with >1000000
rows the speed of inserts and update may be more critical then the
speed for selects - depending on the indices you've defined for that
table.

 If you've more smaller tables the work for insert and updates is
not that problem.

 Marten





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