Re: RFC: Very large scale postgres support

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: "Alex J(dot) Avriette" <alex(at)posixnap(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: RFC: Very large scale postgres support
Date: 2004-02-08 19:07:14
Message-ID: 402688E2.9080108@pse-consulting.de
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Alex J. Avriette wrote:

>
>I feel that it would be a very good thing if some thinking on this
>subject was done. In the future, people will hopefully begin using
>postgres for more intense applications. We are looking at perhaps many
>tens of billions of transactions per day within the next year or two.
>
>

tens of billions =10e10 per day? This is probably a typo, because this
would mean > 100,000 requests per second? Do you want to feed a monitor
with pixel data right from the database, using individual queries for
each pixel? Or record each irc user's keyclick in the world concurrently
online in a single database?

Regards,
Andreas

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