Re: How Big is Too Big for Tables?

P Kishor wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
>> * P Kishor (punk(dot)kish(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>>> Three. At least, in my case, the overhead is too much. My data are
>>> single bytes, but the smallest data type in Pg is smallint (2 bytes).
>>> That, plus the per row overhead adds to a fair amount of overhead.
>> My first reaction to this would be- have you considered aggregating the
>> data before putting it into the database in such a way that you put more
>> than 1 byte of data on each row..? That could possibly reduce the
>> number of rows you have by quite a bit and also reduce the impact of the
>> per-tuple overhead in PG..
> each row is half a dozen single byte values, so, it is actually 6
> bytes per row (six columns).

Hmm six chars - this would not perchance be bio (sequence) or geospacial data?
If so then there are specialist lists out there that can help.
Also quite a few people use Pg for this data and there are some very neat Pg add ons.

Jacqui