McMaster University Creates Open Source eHealth Records System

[Dave Cramer]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm kinda new in the field of knowing which sql applications are
> better, recently out of college.
>
> How does postgres handle hundreds of thousands to millions of
> transactions a second?
>
> It doesn't ...


> How many transactions a second can postgres do?
>

Transactions per second come down to roughly this equation .. Filesystem I/O
speed (MB/s) / transaction size (MB)

So the answer to your question is "it depends on the hardware that it is
installed on".

Dave
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