Re: Is this still accurate? - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Steve Atkins
Subject Re: Is this still accurate?
Date
Msg-id 7F963E79-CF4F-4E93-AA46-36E1817332D0@blighty.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Is this still accurate?  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: Is this still accurate?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
List pgsql-docs
> On Jan 5, 2018, at 10:00 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> * Moser, Glen G (Glen.Moser@charter.com) wrote:
>> That's really the gist of the concern from a team member of mine.  Not that the 4TB number is wrong but that it
couldbe misleading to assume that 4TB is some sort of upper bound. 
>>
>> That's how this concern was relayed to me and I am just following up.
>
> Well, saying 'in excess of' is pretty clear, but I don't think the
> sentence is really adding much either, so perhaps we should just remove
> it.

It's been useful a few times to reassure people that we can handle "large"
databases operationally, rather than just having large theoretical limits.

Updating it would be great, or wrapping a little more verbiage around the
4TB number, but a mild -1 on removing it altogether.

Cheers,
  Steve

pgsql-docs by date:

Previous
From: Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Subject: Re: Element sup in namespace '' encountered in a, but no templatematches.
Next
From: Alvaro Herrera
Date:
Subject: Re: Is this still accurate?