RE: [GENERAL] Is it possible to work with big databases (up to 10Gb) under Postgres?

2001-08-20 Thread Andrew Snow
I believe if you throw decent hardware at it (the sort of hardware you need to throw at 10GB database to make it perform well) then it is definitely worth giving it a go. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ivan Babikov > Sent: Mond

Re: [GENERAL] Is it possible to work with big databases (up to 10Gb) under Postgres?

2001-08-20 Thread Andrew Gould
Hi Ivan! Well, I don't have a 10 Gb database _yet_; but my server manages 3 databases that currently total over 17 Gb without a problem. (Also, linking tables from different databases by querying via ODBC and MS Access works like a charm!) I used MySQL for a while; and considered Interbase. I

Re: [GENERAL] Is it possible to work with big databases (up to 10Gb) under Postgres?

2001-08-20 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Ivan, I was running a database with ~27GB of info (admittedly in large, very simple tables) on PostgreSQL 7.0.3 a while ago for a few months. Didn't have any real problems with it, apart from having to accept that a lot of data takes time to process. :-/ Regards and best wishes, Justin Cli