On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 1:00 PM Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ok, just something to think about; Thank you. I do appreciate the feedback. > Will your database grow beyond 10TB with blobs? The largest internal store I've seen (for the subset of data that goes in the DB) is shy of 3TB. But we are an ISV, not one of our clients, which have truly massive scale for data. And they don't share the exact scale of their proprietary data with me... > If so try to calculate how long it takes to restore, and comply with SLA, > and how long it would have taken to restore without the blobs. Something I don't quite get is why somehow backup is no longer needed if the large blobs are external? i.e. are you saying backups are so much more worse in PostgreSQL than with the FS? I'm curious now. Also, managing the PostgreSQL server will be the client's own concern mostly. We are not into Saas here. As hinted above, the truly massive data is already not in the DB, used by different systems, and processed down to the GB sized inputs all the data put in the DB is generated from. It's a scientific data heavy environment. And one where security of the data is paramount, for contractual and legal reasons. Files make that harder IMHO. Anyways, this is straying from the main theme of this post I'm afraid. Hopefully we can come back on the main one too. --DD
