Re: Best way to handle multi-billion row read-only table? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Best way to handle multi-billion row read-only table?
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Msg-id 407d949e1002100709p492168f4qad4be890f7f6f1dd@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Best way to handle multi-billion row read-only table?  (Asher <asher@piceur.co.uk>)
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On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Asher <asher@piceur.co.uk> wrote:
> The data will initially be accessed via a simple GUI which will allow
> browsing over a subset of the data (subsampled down to 1 sample/minute/hour,
> etc.

It sounds like you could use a tool like rrd that keeps various levels
of aggregation and intelligently chooses the right level for the given
query. I think there are such tools though I'm not sure there are any
free ones.

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greg

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