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Re:New in PostgreSQL 10 by kstrauser on Thursday September 21, 2017 @07:50PM (#15308253)
That's about 1/250th of our working set size. :)

Of course, that's in a Spark cluster running massively parallel queries and not on a single (however large) node.

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Re:New in PostgreSQL 10 by ibotty on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:26AM (#15309834)
You did not ask that question. I assume you knew before that PostgreSQL is not the tool for your workload.
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Re:New in PostgreSQL 10 by kstrauser on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:34AM (#15309858)
I didn’t ask a question. I love PostgreSQL for small relational stuff (where “small” is up to a few TB) and use it any time it’s appropriate. I wouldn’t classify it as a Big Data store, though.

That’s no criticism at all. I wouldn’t use Spark for a transactional DB because it’s not the best tool for the job. Same for PostgreSQL when the dataset grows far beyond what a single instance can reasonably process.

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