Re: Size of regression database

Tom Lane wrote:
> I was testing backwards compatibility of pg_dumpall just now, and was
> somewhat astonished to notice the size of the output for the regression
> database compared to what it was not too long ago:
>
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 tgl tgl 4509135 Nov 13 16:19 dumpall.83
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 tgl tgl 4514441 Nov 13 16:24 dumpall.84
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 tgl tgl 4666917 Nov 13 16:15 dumpall.90
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 tgl tgl 4681235 Nov 13 16:15 dumpall.91
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 tgl tgl 5333587 Nov 13 16:15 dumpall.92
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 tgl tgl 5409083 Nov 13 16:15 dumpall.93
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 tgl tgl 5493686 Nov 13 16:15 dumpall.94
> -rw-rw-r--. 1 tgl tgl 27151777 Nov 13 16:21 dumpall.head
>
> A quick eyeball check says that that quintupling of the database size
> is all in BRIN index tests. Could we dial that back to something a
> bit saner please?

Oops. Sure, will see about this.

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