Re: What's size of your PostgreSQL Database?

Mark Roberts wrote:
> 1. 2.5-3TB, several others that are of fractional sisize.
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> 5. They do pretty well, actually.  Our aggregate fact tables regularly
> join to metadata tables and we have an average query return time of
> 10-30s.  We do make some usage of denormalized mviews for
> chained/hierarchical metadata tables.
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Just out of curiosity, how do you replicate that amount of data?
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> A few notes: our database really can be broken into a very typical ETL
> database: medium/high input (write) volume with low latency access
> required.  I can provide a developer's view of what is necessary to keep
> a database of this size running, but I'm under no illusion that it's
> actually a "large" database.
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> I'd go into more details, but I'd hate to be rambling.  If anyone's
> actually interested about any specific parts, feel free to ask. :)
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I'd be very interested in a developers view of running and maintaining a
database this size.
Mostly what choices is made during development that might have been
different on a smaller database.
I'm also curious about the maintenance needed to keep a database this
size healthy over time.

Regards,
/roppert
> Also, if you feel that we're doing "something wrong", feel free to
> comment there too. :)
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> -Mark
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