Timothy Glover writes:
> At work we are considering whether to switch to oracle or continue
> with postgresql. We currently use postgresql, with no problems and
> excellent response time (with data mining). But we are wondering what
> happens when the database gets huge. Currently its run on a p3/300
> with 198 megs of ram, and it services 80 hospital locations.
If that means a lot of concurrent clients you want to get a lot more CPUs
it seems.
I'm not sure what you consider a huge database but there are instances of
databases of far more than 10GB. Big hardware and a better OS will help.
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