Re: Is there any limitations - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Is there any limitations
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Msg-id 20021203073404.A5868@mail.libertyrms.com
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In response to Is there any limitations  (li li <lili@cs.uoregon.edu>)
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On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:46:43PM -0800, li li wrote:
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> for the maximum number of tables in a database.

<http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/limitations.html>

For practical purposes, probably not.

> to get it separated once the size grows up to a limit. So there
> will be a large amount of tables (having same structure) in a database. Is
> there any potential performance problem with this design?

It depends on what you're going to do.  If the idea is to join across
the tables, it'll probably perform worse than just ahving a large
table.  OTOH, if what you're doing is, say, archiving from time to
time, it doesn't seem unreasonable.

A

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