Kumar S wrote:
> I am wondering how many rows of data can postgresql
> efficiently deal with in comparision to Oracle that
> can deal with millions and millions of rows (I was
> told this fact by my senior).
>
> One of my table has 8876216 rows that look like:
> [...]
Two weeks ago I fed the German telephone book of 2002 into
a PostgreSQL database (for testing purposes). It was about
36 million rows and 8 GByte of data. Of course, the import
took a while, but there were no problems at all. I expect
PostgreSQL to cope with much more data than that.
Best regards
Oliver
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