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You'll hit all sorts of other fun problems by vertically scaling.

- Many concurrent connections to a single database which Postgres has traditionally not handled well (though improved in recent versions).

- You're now on the hook for writing a database control plane.

- Backup and restore is much flakier since the data volume is so much larger. Lots of weird shit starts happening when you download tens of TB.

- In general, everything is a harder once you start nearing machine limits.



Yes I thought Postgres didn't recommend more than 700 connections per server (or maybe it was 300) and that was only three or four years ago.




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