Re: Do Petabyte storage solutions exist? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Christopher Browne
Subject Re: Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?
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In response to Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?  (reina_ga@hotmail.com (Tony Reina))
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In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, brad@kieser.net (Bradley Kieser) transmitted:
> I think as far as PG storage goes you're really on a losing streak
> here because PG clustering really isn't going to support this across
> multiple servers. We're not even close to the mark as far as clustered
> servers and replication management goes, let alone the storate limit
> of 2GB per table. So sadly, PG would have to bow out of this IMHO
> unless someone else nukes me on this!

Are you trying to to do a bad April Fool's joke?

A "2GB limit" is simply nonsense.  I work with a number of databases
where tables contain >>2GB of data.

While there are some of the "pointy-clicky" approaches to clustering
and replication that aren't "there" for PostgreSQL, a '2GB limit' is
certainly NOT one of the reasons to avoid PG.
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