Re: One big table or several smaller tables ? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: One big table or several smaller tables ?
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In response to Re: One big table or several smaller tables ?  (Jason Earl <jason.earl@simplot.com>)
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Aarni, Jason,

> My suggestion would be to put all of the data in one table.
> Especially if that would make the system easier to query.  Believe it
> or not but 1 million records isn't really that big of a deal.  I have
> tables with 17 million rows, and I generally use cheap commodity
> hardware.

You may want expert help or advice on performance tweaks for your
 server, though.  The default settings in postgresql.conf are not
 intended for a million-row table on a serious server.

-Josh Berkus

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