I work at a startup that is less than 1 year old and we have indices that are in the hundreds of gigabytes. It is not as uncommon as you think. Scaling vertical

I work at a startup that is less than 1 year old and we have indices that are in the hundreds of gigabytes. It is not as uncommon as you think. Scaling vertically is extremely expensive, especially if one doesn’t take your (misguided) suggestion to run Postgres on a VPS rather than using a managed solution like most do.