On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 17:44 +0100, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Harald Armin Massa, 17.03.2009 15:00: > > That is: what table size would you or anybody consider really, really > > large actually? > > I recently attended and Oracle training by Tom Kyte and he said (partially joking though) that a database is only large when the size is measured in terrabytes :) > > So really, really large would mean something like 100 petabytes > > > My personal opinion is that a "large" database has more than ~10 million rows in more than ~10 tables. It entirely depends on workload and hardware. Joshua D. Drake > > Thomas > > -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdrake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general