Re: Does standalone postfrsql have autogrowth/ manual growth on table space?

From: Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Does standalone postfrsql have autogrowth/ manual growth on table space?
Date: 2022-10-20 17:31:11
Message-ID: 98770608-86c3-ebc1-4b55-76331bdf62da@gmail.com
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On 10/20/22 11:29, Ron wrote:
> On 10/20/22 12:19, Vince McMahon wrote:
>> In other databases, there is a way to preallocate the table space to
>> allow bulk loading of data in a well packed and continuous space.
>>
>>
>> Does psql have that auto/manual growth?
>
> There's no pre-allocation in Postgresql.  When you run CREATE TABLE,
> an (I think) 8KiB file is created; it grows as you add more data. When
> it hits 1GiB in size, another table is created.  And then another and
> another and another, etc.
>
Another "file" is created, I think you mean

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