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

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr(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 17:32:39
Message-ID: fd4bdf59-4e01-6d10-13c9-c8bc9952159c@gmail.com
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On 10/20/22 12:31, Rob Sargent wrote:
> 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

Yes :D

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