Re: Restoring database disk space requirements???

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Gordan Bobic" <gordan(at)freeuk(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Restoring database disk space requirements???
Date: 2001-06-18 15:02:24
Message-ID: 1843.992876544@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Gordan Bobic" <gordan(at)freeuk(dot)com> writes:
> Can somebody please explain to me why is it that 20 Gb of disk space
> is required to restore 5 GB of data?

You may wish to apply the patch at
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-patches/2001-06/msg00061.html

> What is going on? I have had this same problem with v7.0, and now with
> v7.1.

Rather hard to believe, since there was no WAL in 7.0.

regards, tom lane

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