Re: [GENERAL] Problems with Large Databases

2000-06-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
carl garland writes: > This didnt really answer the initial question of how long does it take > to locate a table in a large 100+ table db and where and when do > these lookups occur. In the current system there are several places that do sequential scans on pg_class (which holds information

[GENERAL] Problems with Large Databases

2000-06-03 Thread carl garland
In a previous post Ed Loer wrote: > Don't even think about 10 separate tables in a database :-(.It's >not so much that PG's own datastructures wouldn't cope,as thatvery >few Unix filesystems can cope with 10 filesin a directory.You'd >be killed on directory search