On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> We hope to have a chance to discuss this during the upcoming developer > unconference in Ottawa. Here are some preliminary ideas to shed some > light on what we're trying to do. > > > I've been trying to figure out a plan to enable native column stores > (CS or "colstore") for Postgres. Motivations: > > * avoid the 32 TB limit for tables > * avoid the 1600 column limit for tables > * increased performance > > Are you looking to avoid all hardware-based limits, or would using a 64 bit row pointer be possible? That would give you 2^64 or 1.8 E19 unique rows over whatever granularity/uniqueness you use (per table, per database, etc.) -- Mike Nolan.
