Re: About page on .org site

On 26 September 2015 at 22:21, Peter Geoghegan
<peter.geoghegan86@gmail.com> wrote:
> The page http://www.postgresql.org/about/ states:
>
> "There are active PostgreSQL systems in production environments that
> manage in excess of 4 terabytes of data."
>
> This seems like an obsolete comment. There are single node databases
> that Heroku controls that are larger than that now. I doubt Heroku
> really pushes PostgreSQL to its limits in this dimension, and it seems
> reasonable to suppose some production PostgreSQL databases are far
> larger these days.

Indeed.  The San Diego Supercomputer Center mentions having a 50TB
PostgreSQL database, and there are no doubt much larger databases than
that around too:
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/sdscs_gordon_supercomputer_parsing_genes_proteins_and_big_bio_data

Thom