Re: Improving speed of copy

From: Mike Benoit <mikeb(at)netnation(dot)com>
To: shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in
Cc: Pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Improving speed of copy
Date: 2002-09-20 17:27:13
Message-ID: 1032542833.7433.11.camel@mikeb.staff.netnation.com
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On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 08:52, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

> Besides there is issue of space. Mysql takes 1.4GB space for 1.2GB text data
> and postgresql takes 3.2GB of space. Even with 40 bytes per row overhead
> mentioned in FAQ, that should come to around 1.7GB, counting for 40% increase
> in size. Vacuum was run on database.
>

How did you calculate the size of database? If you used "du" make sure
you do it in the data/base directory as to not include the WAL files.

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