How to estimate disk space

Started by Chris Velevitchalmost 20 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Chris Velevitch
chris.velevitch@gmail.com

Is there a reference on how to estimate the disk space requirements of
a database?

Chris
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Chris Velevitch
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#2Chris Velevitch
chris.velevitch@gmail.com
In reply to: Chris Velevitch (#1)
Re: How to estimate disk space

On 5/24/06, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/storage.html

Sorry, I forgot to mention, it's for 7.4. There doesn't seem to be the
equivalent page or subject in the 7.4 documentation. In addition, the
explaination is a high level description of table or index page but
light on the details.

But the simplest way is to populate with a fraction of your real data
requirements and scale that up.

I don't think works well. How do I work out the space taken by a
single table that grows at a different rate than another table?

Chris
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Chris Velevitch
Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group
www.flashdev.org.au