> Dear Folks, > > We have been running 6.4.2 under Linux on a dual Xeon box > with mostly good success. Our current dataset is 20 million records > of mostly numerical data (56 fields of floats [70%], ints [20%] and > a few text fields [10%]). The performance is acceptable, the only > problem so far has been the difficultly in floating type promotion > "confusing" the optimizer. > > Our database is about to expans to 150 million records. Given > sufficient diskspace (e.g. a larger RAID array) will postgres > perform on this volume? Are there any gotchas? General comments > from people with experience with databases of this volume under > postgres? The only problem I could see immediately is that the Linux ext2 filesystem has a 2GB limit on any one file. Postgresql has functionality to get round that (as was discussed a few months ago on the list) but it apparently causes problems in some instances. I suggest you look through the archives for this one.
