Re: Limit on number of databases in a Cluster ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Josh Harrison
Subject Re: Limit on number of databases in a Cluster ?
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Msg-id 8d89ea1d0812031005u1857004eu95f694cfcc0f19a5@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Limit on number of databases in a Cluster ?  ("Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Josh Harrison <joshques@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1. Is there a limit on the number of databases that can be in a single
> postgres cluster?

No.  I'm sure there's a practical limit into the thousands where
things start to get slower.

> 2. Is there any performance impacts associated with having too many
> databases in a cluster?

Define too many.  I've run a couple hundred before without it being a problem.

> 3. Is there a good magical number for this limit ?

Only the one that your testing tells you there is.  Got a rough guess
of how many you want to run?  How busy they'll be?  that kind of
thing.

About 10-15 ?

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