Re: PostgreSQL Website : advocacy.postgresql.org

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Gerhard Häring <gerhard(dot)haering(at)gmx(dot)de>, PostgreSQL General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Website : advocacy.postgresql.org
Date: 2002-10-02 05:43:22
Message-ID: 20021002054322.GC2745@svana.org
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On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:37:16PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
> Mentioning the limitations of PostgreSQL might be good -- "we support
> tables up to x gigabytes, with y rows, z columns, etc.". There's an
> FAQ entry on this which you can probably adapt.

You're looking at it wrong. PostgreSQL doesn't have limitations, it has
capabilites. For example: PostgreSQL supports multi-terabytes databases with
billions of rows and thousands of columns. Examples in <big company a>, <big
company b>.
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary
> arithmetic and those that can't.

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