Re: How many rows can postgresql can sustain - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Bruno Wolff III
Subject Re: How many rows can postgresql can sustain
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In response to How many rows can postgresql can sustain  (Kumar S <ps_postgres@yahoo.com>)
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:14:11 -0700,
  Kumar S <ps_postgres@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear group,
>  I am wondering how many rows of data can postgresql
> efficiently deal with in comparision to Oracle that
> can deal with millions and millions of rows (I was
> told this fact by my senior).

In general Postgres isn't going to have a problem with tables with extremely
large numbers of rows. There may be certain queries that run slower in
postgres than in oracle (in particular certain aggregates) or other databases.

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