On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:13:02PM +0100, Tomka Gergely wrote: > Hi! > > I need to write a few pages about Postgresql, to convince some suits. They > have a few millions of records, on a few site, but they want to know the > practical limits of Postgresql. So i need some information about the > biggest (in storage space, in record number, in field number, and maybe > table number) postgresql databases. > > Additionally, because this company develops hospital information systems, > if someone knows about a medical institute, which uses Postgresql, and > happy, please send me infomation. I only now subscribed to the advocacy > list, and only started to browse the archives. We have a customer that has around 5000 tables and hasn't had any serious issues from that number of tables (other than \d sometimes not working in psql, but IIRC Tom put a fix in for that already). As for raw size, 100G databases are pretty common. If you search through the list archives you can probably find some examples. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
