Re: How large can a PostgreSQL database get? - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 06:23:41AM -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> Hi.  I was promoting PostgreSQL to an AIX/Oracle shop yesterday, they are
> looking to switch to open source to cut their licensing costs, and was asked
> how large a database does PostgreSQL support?  Is there an upper bound on
> database size and if so, what it is?

Well, anything over hundreds of gigabytes is going to require tuning,
and above a terrabyte is going to require partitioning.  There isn't a
hard limit, but we don't see many serves over tens of terrabytes.

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