Re: minimum hardware requirements for small postgres db

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Paul Smith <paul.smithy987@gmail.com> wrote:
> You say a modern Nettop is more than enough recommending a minimum RAM of
> 256MB.  My original post did say under Windows.  As 256MB is not enough to
> even run Windows, did you miss that ?

I have not found it in the first message. But probably it was in those
one you mentioned you got 2 replies.

> It also seems at least some ERD design tools require strong hardware 2GHz,
> 4GB RAM. Have you any recommendations on choice of an ERD design tool as per
> prev. post ?

I would recommend you to try pgAdmin and PostgreSQL Maestro.


> Thanks again. Paul
>
>
> On 21 February 2013 00:53, Sergey Konoplev <gray.ru@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > It is for the above reasons I am revisiting the suitability of pg.  As
>> > stated my DB App will be single user offline use, small, about 20 tables,
>> > and many of those will be just short 'picklists' triggered by Form input for
>> > easier-validated dataentry.  I notice the FAQ, User Manual, & neither of the
>> > 2 replies directly addresses my primary question: "If Atom class nettop not
>> > sufficient, would like to know the minimum class of CPU, RAM, GPU required."
>> > Is it quite difficult to make even a rough recommendation of minimum
>> > hardware for the above 'small' db ?
>>
>> For single user personal use small database any modern (down to 5
>> years old) nettop will be more than enough. I would recommend 256MB as
>> the bottom limit of RAM. See also this link
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/supported-platforms.html.
>>
>>
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>
>



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