Re: Very large tables - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Very large tables
Date
Msg-id 20081128154855.GB8993@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Very large tables  ("William Temperley" <willtemperley@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Very large tables  ("Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz" <gryzman@gmail.com>)
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William Temperley escribió:

> I've been asked to store a grid of 1.5 million geographical locations,
> fine. However, associated with each point are 288 months, and
> associated with each month are 500 float values (a distribution
> curve), i.e. 1,500,000 * 288 * 500 = 216 billion values :).
>
> So a 216 billion row table is probably out of the question. I was
> considering storing the 500 floats as bytea.

What about a float array, float[]?

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