Re: Maximum number of sequences that can be created

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Craig James <cjames(at)emolecules(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Віталій Тимчишин <tivv00(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:
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>> The sequences AFAIK are accounted as relations. Large list of relations
>> may slowdown different system utilities like vacuuming (or may not, depends
>> on queries and indexes on pg_class).
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> Not "may slow down." Change that to "will slow down and possibly corrupt"
> your system.
>
> In my experience (PG 8.4.x), the system can handle in the neighborhood of
> 100,000 relations pretty well. Somewhere over 1,000,000 relations, the
> system becomes unusable. It's not that it stops working -- day-to-day
> operations such as querying your tables and running your applications
> continue to work. But system operations that have to scan for table
> information seem to freeze (maybe they run out of memory, or are
> encountering an O(N^2) operation and simply cease to complete).
>

Glad I found this thread.

Is this 1M relation mark for the whole database cluster or just for a
single database within the cluster?

Thanks,
-Greg