Limit to number of tables and table drops - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From John Gage
Subject Limit to number of tables and table drops
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Msg-id B9DFB3F6-5268-4094-A1D5-686308EA5CCA@numericable.fr
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Responses Re: Limit to number of tables and table drops  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I am creating a web application that uses very small temporary tables
(i.e. tables that are created and then destroyed nearly immediately)
to store state data for a particular browser "session".

A table might have four columns and four rows each containing a small
piece of text.

The "sessions" last a minute at best.

I can contemplate (hope for?) as many as 100,000 sessions in an hour.
That would mean 100,000 table creations and destructions in an hour
( or getting on 2000 per minute).

Will that stress a postgres database?  Stress defined as slow response
or exceeding storage.

What are the measures one would take to minimize stress?

I have looked at the documentation but don't find something exactly
apposite to this question.

Thanks,

John


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