Re: table size/record limit

Hi,

Am Do, den 21.10.2004 schrieb Dennis Gearon um 1:30:
> I am designing something that may be the size of yahoo, google, ebay, etc.
>
> Just ONE many to many table could possibly have the following
> characteristics:
>
>     3,600,000,000 records
>     each record is 9 fields of INT4/DATE
>
> Other tables will have about 5 million records of about the same size.
>
> There are lots of scenarios here to lessson this.
>
> BUT, is postgres on linux, maybe necessarily a 64 bit system, cabable of
> this? And there'd be 4-5 indexes on that table.

Sure. Why not? 3...5mio records is not really a problem.
We had bigger tables with historic commercial transactions
(even on an old dual PIII/1000) with fine performance.
I bet however, yahoo, google at least are much bigger :-)

Regards
Tino