Soma Interesting <dfunct@telus.net> writes:
> I'd like to get an idea of the overhead introduced by large quantity of
> tables being hosted off a single PostgreSQL server. It is possible I'll be
> wanting to host upwards of 200-500 tables per server. Essentially, will I
> be surprised to find out that performance in PostgreSQL (or DBMS in
> general) is significantly hindered by sheer quantity of tables?
When you get to tens of thousands of tables per server, we might start
to worry a little... 500 is in the "what me worry?" class.
regards, tom lane