why so big?
I've just created a new database and I am wondering...
Why are all sequence files 8K? They're one freaking int.
How come the indexes are so large? They tend to be larger than the
database files themselves. In one case I have a 16K index on an empty
table.
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 0 May 11 19:12 category
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16384 May 11 19:13
category_parent_key
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16384 May 11 19:12 category_pkey
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 May 17 03:35 message
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 8192 May 12 13:26
message_id_seq
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16384 May 17 03:35 message_o_key
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16384 May 17 03:35 message_pkey
-rw------- 1 postgres postgres 16384 May 17 03:35 message_p_key
-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Shraibman <jks@p1.selectacast.net>
To: pgsql-general@hub.org <pgsql-general@hub.org>
Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 4:33 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] why so big?
I've just created a new database and I am wondering...
Why are all sequence files 8K? They're one freaking int.
How come the indexes are so large? They tend to be larger than the
database files themselves. In one case I have a 16K index on an empty
table
Overhead! I think you will find that 8K is the smallest file that can be
allocated if you add one record to a table, the index isn't going to get any
bigger for a while until it fills up the 16K.
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