Re: Are 50 million rows a problem for postgres ?

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Vasilis Ventirozos wrote:

> Hi all, i work in a telco and i have huge ammount of data, (50 million)
> but i see a lack of performance at huge tables with postgres,
> are 50 million rows the "limit" of postgres ? (with a good performance)
> i am waiting for 2004 2 billion records so i have to do something.
> Does anyone have a huge database to ask him some issues ?
>
> my hardware is good ,my indexes are good plz dont answer me something like use
> vacuum  :)

I have a similarly huge number of records, as I process our web, ftp,
and rsync logs together using postgres. Works like a charm. You do have
to allow that queries are going to take a long time. I use about 6
queries to summarise a quarter's data - each run for each month, so a
total of 18 queries. These run in a little over 24 hours. And there are
many, many records per month.

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Sam Barnett-Cormack
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