Re: Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?

From: Jürgen Cappel <email(at)juergen-cappel(dot)de>
To: "Tony and Bryn Reina" <reina_ga(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?
Date: 2004-04-01 19:55:55
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AFAIK Postgres uses an internal limit of 2 GB per table file with
a lot of files per table to make up some Terabytes. So don't worry!
Let's see what one of the gurus will tell us. Bye.

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An: Bradley Kieser
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Betreff: Re: [ADMIN] Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?

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From: "Bradley Kieser" <brad(at)kieser(dot)net>
To: "Tony Reina" <reina_ga(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?

let alone the storate limit of 2GB per
> table. So sadly, PG would have to bow out of this IMHO unless someone
> else nukes me on this!

Uh oh, 2 GB limit on table sizes. I did realize the limit was that low.

Would commercial DBMS be the better solution for handling Terabyte databases
and above?

-Tony

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