Re: [PERFORM] [pgsql-advocacy] Postgres and really huge tables

2007-01-19 Thread Josh Berkus
> A lot of data, but not a lot of records... I don't know if that's > valid. I guess the people at Greenplum and/or Sun have more exciting > stories ;) Not really. Pretty much multi-terabyte tables are fine on vanilla PostgreSQL if you can stick to partitioned and/or indexed access. If you n

Re: [PERFORM] DB benchmark and pg config file help

2007-01-19 Thread Kevin Hunter
On 19 Jan 2007 at 10:56a -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:05:35 -0500, Kevin Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seriously though, that would have bitten me. Thank you, I did not know that. Does that mean that I can't publish the results outside of my work/research/per

Re: [PERFORM] Configuration Advice

2007-01-19 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 1/17/07, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey there; I've been lurking on this list awhile, and I've been working with postgres for a number of years so I'm not exactly new to this. But I'm still having trouble getting a good balance of settings and I'd like to see what other people think. W

Re: [PERFORM] DB benchmark and pg config file help

2007-01-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:05:35 -0500, Kevin Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seriously though, that would have bitten me. Thank you, I did not know > that. Does that mean that I can't publish the results outside of my > work/research/personal unit at all? Or do I just need to obscure

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres and really huge tables

2007-01-19 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 1/18/07, Brian Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any experience with Postgresql and really huge tables? I'm talking about terabytes (plural) here in a single table. Obviously the table will be partitioned, and probably spread among several different file systems. Any other tricks I s

Re: [PERFORM] DB benchmark and pg config file help

2007-01-19 Thread Kevin Hunter
On 19 Jan 2007 at 8:45a -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote: On 1/17/07, Kevin Hunter [hunteke∈earlham.edu] wrote: I am in the process of learning some of the art/science of benchmarking. Given novnov's recent post about the comparison of MS SQL vs PostgresQL, I felt it time to do a benchmark compariso

Re: [PERFORM] DB benchmark and pg config file help

2007-01-19 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 1/17/07, Kevin Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello List, Not sure to which list I should post (gray lines, and all that), so point me in the right direction if'n it's a problem. I am in the process of learning some of the art/science of benchmarking. Given novnov's recent post about th

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [PERFORM] Postgres and really huge tables

2007-01-19 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Tom Lane wrote: Brian Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is there any experience with Postgresql and really huge tables? I'm talking about terabytes (plural) here in a single table. The 2MASS sky survey point-source catalog http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/releases/allsky