Thanks for all of the input everyone. I believe I am going to put together a test case using schemas and partitioning and then doubling the amount of data currently in the system to give me an idea of how things will be performing a couple of years down the road. I was looking at a server using the new Opteron 6100 series for the new server and it would have 32 cores, but the speed is 2ghz. I read a post earlier today that mentioned in passing that it was better to have a faster processor than more cores. I was wondering whether or not this would be a good selection since there are CPUs in the Intel branch that are quad core up to 3.3ghz. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance