On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Yuva Chandolu wrote: > We are moving to Postgres from Oracle. We have a few tables that have around > 8 to 10 millions of rows and their size increases very rapidly(deletions are > very less on these tables). How will Postgres hanlde very big tables like > this?
Uh..."what big tables?" :-) Have a look back through the archives. I'm mucking about quite happily with 500 million row tables, without much difficulty. I've found that my main barrier is disk I/O. If you're doing it on a little dual-IDE disk system as I am, things just ain't so fast. I'm hoping that in the next couple of weeks I get the go-ahead to put together a system with ten or so disks (based around a 3ware Escalade IDE RAID controller) that will make trillion-row-tables quite practical. > or would it be very slow when compared to Oracle? Do you have any case > studies in this regd? It all depends entirely on the application. Really. Some applications will work just as well on Postgres as they will on Oracle; others will be almost impossible with Postgres. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
