Sinds Postgres 12 , is de officiële lijst met beperkingen te vinden in de handleiding :
Item Upper Limit Comment --------------------------------------------------------- database size unlimited number of databases 4,294,950,911 relations per database 1,431,650,303 relation size 32 TB with the default BLCKSZ of 8192 bytes rows per table limited by the number of tuples that can fit onto 4,294,967,295 pages columns per table 1600 further limited by tuple size fitting on a single page; see note below field size 1 GB identifier length 63 bytes can be increased by recompiling PostgreSQL indexes per table unlimited constrained by maximum relations per database columns per index 32 can be increased by recompiling PostgreSQL partition keys 32 can be increased by recompiling PostgreSQL
Daarvoor was er een officiële lijst op de PostgresL "About"-pagina . Citaat voor Postgres 9.5 :
Limit Value
Maximum Database Size Unlimited
Maximum Table Size 32 TB
Maximum Row Size 1.6 TB
Maximum Field Size 1 GB
Maximum Rows per Table Unlimited
Maximum Columns per Table 250 - 1600 depending on column types
Maximum Indexes per Table Unlimited
Als je in de buurt van die limieten komt, is de kans groot dat je iets fout doet .