Re: maximum number of databases and / or schemas in a single database instance

From: Ben Chobot <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com>
To: Menelaos PerdikeasSemantix <mperdikeas(dot)semantix(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: maximum number of databases and / or schemas in a single database instance
Date: 2012-08-06 17:26:28
Message-ID: 66FBA1B2-070F-4B21-ABEC-41101EC8DFB0@silentmedia.com
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On Aug 4, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Menelaos PerdikeasSemantix wrote:

> The following page:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/about/
>
> mentions some limits but not the following:
>
> [1] maximum number of databases per database server instance
> [2] maximum number of schemas per database
>
> Is there empirical information on whether both these values can be as high as a few hundreds? (I don't really need any more for my use case)

As a anecdote, we have a postgres cluster running a single db with ~1200 schemas, each schema having ~600 relations. Tab-completion is a little slow, but http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2012-03/msg00666.php allowed things to be quite reasonable.

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