| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | William Temperley <willtemperley(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Very large tables |
| Date: | 2008-11-28 15:48:55 |
| Message-ID: | 20081128154855.GB8993@alvh.no-ip.org |
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William Temperley escribió:
> I've been asked to store a grid of 1.5 million geographical locations,
> fine. However, associated with each point are 288 months, and
> associated with each month are 500 float values (a distribution
> curve), i.e. 1,500,000 * 288 * 500 = 216 billion values :).
>
> So a 216 billion row table is probably out of the question. I was
> considering storing the 500 floats as bytea.
What about a float array, float[]?
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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