Re: Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?

From: reina_ga(at)hotmail(dot)com (Tony Reina)
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?
Date: 2004-04-05 07:44:12
Message-ID: 272e4be7.0404042344.229c7475@posting.google.com
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scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com ("scott.marlowe") wrote in message news:<Pine(dot)LNX(dot)4(dot)33(dot)0404020911420(dot)32237-100000(at)css120(dot)ihs(dot)com>...
> For quite some time. I believe the max table size of 32 TB was in effect
> as far back as 6.5 or so. It's not some new thing. Now, the 8k row
> barrier was broken with 7.1. I personally found the 8k row size barrier
> to be a bigger problem back then. And 7.1 broke that in 2001, almost
> exactly four years ago. 6.5 came out in 1999-06-09, so the limit to table
> sizes was gone a very long time ago.
>

The PostgreSQL limitations on the users' page
(http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/limitations.html) still says
that tables are limited to 16 TB, not 32 TB.

Perhaps it should be updated?

-Tony

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