Re: hundreds of millions row dBs

From: Wes <wespvp(at)syntegra(dot)com>
To: Guy Rouillier <guyr(at)masergy(dot)com>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Greer, Doug [NTK]" <doug(dot)r(dot)greer(at)mail(dot)sprint(dot)com>
Subject: Re: hundreds of millions row dBs
Date: 2005-01-04 16:59:05
Message-ID: BE002779.366C%wespvp@syntegra.com
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> We're getting about 64 million rows inserted in about 1.5 hrs into a
> table with a multiple-column primary key - that's the only index.
> That's seems pretty good to me - SQL Loader takes about 4 hrs to do the
> same job.

As I recall, the last time we rebuilt our database, it took about 3 hours to
import 265 million rows of data. It then took another 16 hours to rebuild
all the indexes. I think the entire pg_dumpall/reload process took about 21
hours +/-. I wonder what it will be like with 1.5 billion rows...

Wes

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