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by Clay, Bruce :: Rate this Message:

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We are looking into Postgres/PostGis as a possible alternative to Oracle for one of our projects.  Some of our data tables have over 800 million data points.

 

Has anyone tried to put that much data into a single data table?

 

Does anyone have any advice on tuning Postgres/PostGis to be able to handle large datasets?

 

Bruce

 


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Your DB-design depend on your application. Storing only the points plus 2-3 attributes will going into one table.
To make your db faster, there are many possibilitys:
  - compound points with/without M-values
  - create child-tables with the inherits-postgres-feature
  - create child-tables with check-constraints, triggers and put them together with a view
 
Creating child-tables will slow down extremly write performance, but on reading the db has not to read the hole index because the check-constraints. And you can put your tables on different tablespaces.
 
Ralf
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We are looking into Postgres/PostGis as a possible alternative to Oracle for one of our projects.  Some of our data tables have over 800 million data points.

 

Has anyone tried to put that much data into a single data table?

 

Does anyone have any advice on tuning Postgres/PostGis to be able to handle large datasets?

 

Bruce

 

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