On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 06:23:41AM -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Hi. I was promoting PostgreSQL to an AIX/Oracle shop yesterday, they are > looking to switch to open source to cut their licensing costs, and was asked > how large a database does PostgreSQL support? Is there an upper bound on > database size and if so, what it is? Well, anything over hundreds of gigabytes is going to require tuning, and above a terrabyte is going to require partitioning. There isn't a hard limit, but we don't see many serves over tens of terrabytes. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
