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Postgres scalability - What is the impact of connection pooling?

We had a question over on Server Fault that raised an interesting question: In light of the scalability improvements in Postgres 9.2 scalability improvements, is it better to use connection pooling ...
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Proper storage size estimation technique for PostgreSQL

We are preparing a PostgreSQL database for production usage and we need to estimate the storage size for this database. We are a team of developers with low expertise on database administration, so we ...
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Scalability limitations of PostgreSQL and MySQL

I've heard that performance of non-sharded relational database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL "breaks" beyond 10 TB. I suspect that limits as such do exist as one would not come up with Netezza, ...
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Database as a service (DbaaS) over dimensions--performance, scalability, & reliability?

MySql Database as a service: Amazon Xeround Another eg. PostgreSQL Database-as-a-Service. You can get the list of similar products here. Does anyone have details on their performance, ...
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64 bit Postgres 9.1 Limitions on Windows 2008 R2?

When Deploying Postgres on Windows Server 2008 R2: Are there any limitations on windows that don't exist on Linux? Does the postgres scale in the same way on windows as it does on Linux? Is ...