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pezezin on Aug 31, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

How do you get a PostgreSQL database to grow to one petabyte? The maximum table size is 32 TB o_O

yjftsjthsd-h on Aug 31, 2025 | [–]

Cumulative; dozens of machines with a combined database size over a PB even though each box only had like 20 TB.

olavgg on Aug 31, 2025 | [–]

Probably by using partitioning.

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