Re: Can PostgreSQL be a mail backend?

From: John Madden <weez(at)freelists(dot)org>
To: "Morten W(dot) Petersen" <morten(at)esol(dot)no>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Can PostgreSQL be a mail backend?
Date: 2001-02-27 13:54:57
Message-ID: 01022708545759.13156@weez
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> I'm wondering if postgres could be capable of acting as a
> mail storage. This would imply storing messages, from
> 1KB to > 100MB in size. The expected volume is 4000
> messages a day, and the database may store up to,
> lets say, 500000 messages.
>
> Could postgres cope with this? (How is the support for
> big data fields now BTW?)

It works quite well (designing a web-based system on it right now), but
because of a DDB::Pg limit, I can only get 8k into a 'text' field. So if
your app is web-based, you might want to not use perl...

John

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