Re: Curious question about physical files to store database

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Patrick Dung <patrick_dkt(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)hk>
Cc: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Curious question about physical files to store database
Date: 2013-11-07 21:33:45
Message-ID: 20131107213345.GA5613@svana.org
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 10:42:36PM +0800, Patrick Dung wrote:
> I have seen some databases product that allocate small number of large files.
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong:
>
> MySQL with InnoDB

Actually, InnoDB has a file-per-table mode which I tend to prefer. It
means that when I drop a partition I actually see the disk usage drop.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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