Re: Index Size

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Nick Raj <nickrajjain(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Index Size
Date: 2011-05-31 03:20:40
Message-ID: 16119.1306812040@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> On 05/30/2011 08:53 PM, Nick Raj wrote:
>> Cube code provided by postgres contrib folder. It uses the NDBOX structure.
>> On creating index, it's size increase at a high rate.

> [snip]

>> Can some one tell me why index is becoming so large?
>> How to compress or reduce its size?

> It'd help if you included some more details:

> - Your PostgreSQL version

In particular, I wonder whether his version contains this fix:

Author: Robert Haas <rhaas(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Branch: master [4fa0a23c7] 2010-11-14 21:27:34 -0500
Branch: REL9_0_STABLE Release: REL9_0_2 [e6b380251] 2010-11-14 21:27:34 -0500
Branch: REL8_4_STABLE Release: REL8_4_6 [2519b8268] 2010-11-14 21:27:34 -0500
Branch: REL8_3_STABLE Release: REL8_3_13 [d589e4070] 2010-11-14 21:27:34 -0500
Branch: REL8_2_STABLE Release: REL8_2_19 [e642ca767] 2010-11-14 21:27:34 -0500
Branch: REL8_1_STABLE Release: REL8_1_23 [0e27a7319] 2010-11-14 21:27:34 -0500

Fix bug in cube picksplit algorithm.

Alexander Korotkov

regards, tom lane

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