[postgis-users] Large Databases

[Jim C. Nasby]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:58:41PM -0600, Graham Stewart wrote:
> Presently we've got a Dual 3Ghz Xeon with 4 Gigs of ram running on
> Windows 2003 Server. We have about half a terabyte free on the Raid
> array - so it should be plenty powerful enough for our needs.
 
4G might be a bit low for accessing 1/2 a terrabyte; depending on what
your access patterns are.

> I presume the windows postgres should be as scalable as the *nix one?

Theoretically. Realisticly, Windows support is still quite new, and
there's probably more performance tweaks that need to happen.
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