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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2001-01-27 20:19:34 +0000
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These are the limits:
Maximum size for a database? unlimited (60GB databases exist)
-Maximum size for a table? unlimited on all operating systems
+Maximum size for a table? 64 TB on all operating systems
Maximum size for a row? unlimited in 7.1 and later
+Maximum size for a field? 1GB in 7.1 and later
Maximum number of rows in a table? unlimited
-Maximum number of columns in a table? unlimited
+Maximum number of columns in a table? 1600
Maximum number of indexes on a table? unlimited
Of course, these are not actually unlimited, but limited to available
- disk space.
+ disk space and memory/swap space. Performance may suffer when these
+ values get unusually large.
4.7) How much database disk space is required to store data from a typical
text file?