-----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.
