Re: PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

From: Harald Armin Massa <chef(at)ghum(dot)de>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data
Date: 2009-03-17 14:00:52
Message-ID: e3e180dc0903170700v27c4e7j374b37f9d06895a5@mail.gmail.com
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Merlin,

> I agree though
> that a single table approach is best unless 1) the table has to scale
> to really, really large sizes or 2) there is a lot of churn on the
> data (lots of bulk inserts and deletes).

while agreeing, an additional question: could you please pronounce
"really, really large" in other units, like Gigabytes or Number of
rows (with average rowlength in bytes, of course)

That is: what table size would you or anybody consider really, really
large actually?

Harakd

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