On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> William Temperley escribió: > > > I've been asked to store a grid of 1.5 million geographical locations, > > fine. However, associated with each point are 288 months, and > > associated with each month are 500 float values (a distribution > > curve), i.e. 1,500,000 * 288 * 500 = 216 billion values :). > > > > So a 216 billion row table is probably out of the question. I was > > considering storing the 500 floats as bytea. > > What about a float array, float[]? > you seriously don't want to use bytea to store anything, especially if the datatype matching exists in db of choice. also, consider partitioning it :) Try to follow rules of normalization, as with that sort of data - less storage space used, the better :) And well, I would look for a machine with rather fast raid storage :) (and spacious too). -- GJ
