> Yahoo has a 2PB Postgres single instance Postgres database (modified > engine), but the biggest pure Pg single instance I've heard of is 4TB. > The 4TB database has the additional interesting property in that they've > done none of the standard "scalable" architecture changes (such as > partitioning, etc). To me, this is really a shining example that even > naive Postgres databases can scale to as much hardware as you're willing > to throw at them. Of course, clever solutions will get you much more > bang for your hardware buck. Can you share some ideas of the particular design of the 4T db, it sounds very interesting :)
