On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 08:44 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > So, I think "twice disk space of the sum of table and indexes" would be
> > the simplest explanation for safe margin.
>
> Agreed.
Surely the peak space is x3?
Old space + sort space + new space.
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