Re: Large objetcs performance

[Ulrich Cech <ulrich-news2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Alexandre,

<We have an application subjected do sign documents and store them 
somewhere.>

I developed a relative simple "file archive" with PostgreSQL (web 
application with JSF for user interface). The major structure is one 
table with some "key word fields", and 3 blob-fields (because exactly 3 
files belong to one record). I have do deal with millions of files (95% 
about 2-5KB, 5% are greater than 1MB).
The great advantage is that I don't have to "communicate" with the file 
system (try to open a directory with 300T files on a windows system... 
it's horrible, even on the command line).

The database now is 12Gb, but searching with the web interface has a 
maximum of 5 seconds (most searches are faster). The one disadvantage is 
the backup (I use pg_dump once a week which needs about 10 hours). But 
for now, this is acceptable for me. But I want to look at slony or port 
everything to a linux machine.

Ulrich