I believe if you throw decent hardware at it (the sort of hardware you
need to throw at 10GB database to make it perform well) then it is
definitely worth giving it a go.
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> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Ivan Babikov
> Sent: Monday, 20 August 2001 9:06 PM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] Is it possible to work with big databases
> (up to 10Gb) under Postgres?
>
>
> Hello All!
>
> Maybe this is one of those typical questions, but I have
> heard people complaining that Postgres is just for quite
> small bases, less than 2Gb.
>
> Now, we have to choose a free database engine for an
> inexpensive branch of our project and Interbase looks better
> in sense of capability to work with quite big bases (up to
> 10-20Gb). I am not sure that Postgres will work fine with
> databases greater than 10Gb. What does All think of it?
>
> Thanks in advance, Ivan Babikoff.
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