Re: Performance Issues

From: M(dot)Feldtmann(at)t-online(dot)de (Marten Feldtmann)
To: John Menke <john(at)eagleinfosystems(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Performance Issues
Date: 2001-01-11 07:30:27
Message-ID: 3A5D6113.86CD1A8C@toppoint.de
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> John Menke schrieb:
>
> I am in the design phase of a new database that contains one very long
> thin table. Are there any peformance issues with index lookups to a
> table like this if table becomes extremly long? Lets say hundreds of
> thousands to millions of records... Remember, the table only has one
> column.
>
> Another question. If the size of data in this record were to vary
> greatly, would that have an impact on performance?
>
>

insert and updates times may grow linear if you've indices,
otherwise selects will be pretty stable.

Marten

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