On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 02:09:33PM +0600, Ivan Babikov wrote:
>
> > In this case, however, I think he may be understating too much. I read
> the original question as "PostgreSQL is not useful for production systems."
> Call me melodramatic if you like: you are probably right.
> >
> > The point, I guess, is this: it would be really useful to have a document
> somewhere that honestly described the limitations of (the current version
> of) PostgreSQL.
>
> Do you mean Postgres becomes very weak when the size of a database achieves
> 1.5Gb or something close to it?
>
> Maybe this is one of typical questions, but I have heard people complaining
> that Postgres is just for quite small bases. Now we have to choose a free
> database for then inexpensive branch of our project and Interbase looks
> better at capability to work with quite big bases (up to 10-20Gb). I am not
> sure now that Postgres will work with bases greater than 10Gb, what does All
> think?
>
> Thanks in advance, Ivan Babikoff.
>
In my experience postgresql has no problems with big databases. I have had several
problems but they had to do with the os and hardware not the db.
- Einar Karttunen
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