"Igor Shmain" wrote: > I need to design a solution for a database which will grow and will > require horizontal split at some moment. Just one more bit of "food for thought" -- we have a database with 3TB processing approximately 50 million database transactions per day (some with a great many statements or affecting many rows) running quite comfortably on a single machine (actually sharing that machine with a 2TB database on a separate drive array), without partitioning. We have done a lot of tuning. I'm not sure what your basis is for the assumption that you will need to split the database across machines; you might be right, but you might be engaging in "premature optimization". -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin