Re: [PERFORM] Caching by Postgres

2005-08-26 Thread Thomas Ganss
The first, to always remember - is that the move from 64-bits to 32-bits doesn't come for free. In a real 64-bit system with a 64-bit operating system, and 64-bit applications, pointers are now double their 32-bit size. This means more bytes to copy around memory, and in an extreme case, has the

Re: [PERFORM] multi billion row tables: possible or insane?

2005-03-01 Thread Thomas Ganss
Ramon Bastiaans schrieb: My currect estimate is that I have to store (somehow) around 1 billion values each month (possibly more). You should post the actual number or power of ten, since "billion" is not always interpreted the same way... rgds thomas ---(end of broadcast)-