Re: [GENERAL] How large can a PostgreSQL database get?

2013-04-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Michael Nolan wrote: > On 4/17/13, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> My experience, doing production and dev dba work on both postgresql >> and oracle, is that either works well, as long as you partition >> properly or even break things into silos. Oracle isn't magic pixie

Re: [GENERAL] How large can a PostgreSQL database get?

2013-04-17 Thread Michael Nolan
On 4/17/13, Scott Marlowe wrote: > My experience, doing production and dev dba work on both postgresql > and oracle, is that either works well, as long as you partition > properly or even break things into silos. Oracle isn't magic pixie > dust that suddenly gets hardware with 250MB/s seq read arr

Re: [GENERAL] How large can a PostgreSQL database get?

2013-04-17 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Thanks for all the great answers, folks, I'll pass this along. Cheers! Aleksey On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > My experience, doing production and dev dba work on both postgresql > and oracle, is that either works well, as long as you partition > properly or even break t

Re: [GENERAL] How large can a PostgreSQL database get?

2013-04-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
My experience, doing production and dev dba work on both postgresql and oracle, is that either works well, as long as you partition properly or even break things into silos. Oracle isn't magic pixie dust that suddenly gets hardware with 250MB/s seq read arrays to read at 1GB/s, etc. With oracle pa

Re: [GENERAL] How large can a PostgreSQL database get?

2013-04-17 Thread Albe Laurenz
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Hi. I was promoting PostgreSQL to an AIX/Oracle shop yesterday, they are > looking to switch to open > source to cut their licensing costs, and was asked how large a database does > PostgreSQL support? Is > there an upper bound on database size and if so, what it is

Re: [GENERAL] How large can a PostgreSQL database get?

2013-04-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 06:23:41AM -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Hi. I was promoting PostgreSQL to an AIX/Oracle shop yesterday, they are > looking to switch to open source to cut their licensing costs, and was asked > how large a database does PostgreSQL support? Is there an upper bound on

Re: [GENERAL] How large can a PostgreSQL database get?

2013-04-17 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:23:41 -0500, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Hi. I was promoting PostgreSQL to an AIX/Oracle shop yesterday, they are looking to switch to open source to cut their licensing costs, and was asked how large a database does PostgreSQL support? Is there an upper bound on datab

Re: [GENERAL] How large can a PostgreSQL database get?

2013-04-17 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/17/2013 06:23 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Hi. I was promoting PostgreSQL to an AIX/Oracle shop yesterday, they are looking to switch to open source to cut their licensing costs, and was asked how large a database does PostgreSQL support? Is there an upper bound on database size and if

[GENERAL] How large can a PostgreSQL database get?

2013-04-17 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Hi. I was promoting PostgreSQL to an AIX/Oracle shop yesterday, they are looking to switch to open source to cut their licensing costs, and was asked how large a database does PostgreSQL support? Is there an upper bound on database size and if so, what it is? Aleksey Tsalolikhin