Re: postgres vs. oracle for very large tables

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:24:51PM -0700, TJ O'Donnell wrote:
>> I've written some extensions to postgres to implement
>> chemical structure searching.  I get inquiries about
>> the performance of postgres vs. oracle.  This is a huge
>> topic, with lots of opinions and lots of facts.  But,
>> today I got some feedback stating the opinion that:
>> "Postgres performance diminishes with large tables
>>  (we?ll be going to upwards of hundreds of millions of rows)."

It really depends. I have many customers with hundred of millions of
rows that don't have ANY problems.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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