Re: [GENERAL] What is "large"

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Sean Carmody <sean(at)categoricalsolutions(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] What is "large"
Date: 2000-01-05 05:51:47
Message-ID: 200001050551.AAA06444@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Just out of curiosity:
>
> I've noticed a number of exchanges on various PostgreSQL mailing lists along
> the lines of
>
> Original posting:
> > ... we are using a large database: tables having X number of rows ...
>
> Reply:
> ... that's not a large database! ;) ...
>
> Would a table with around 6,000,000 records (each with, say, 4 fields) be
> considered "large" for PostgreSQL?

Databases and tables of > 10 Gig would be large.

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