On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:47:53PM -0500, Jason Minion wrote:
> Usually a dump is significantly smaller than a live database due to
> space taken up by indexes and discarded tuples from MVCC. If it's
> significantly smaller you may also want to take a look at your vacuuming
> procedure.
Between excluding the database overhead (mostly tuple headers),
excluding indexes, and compression, getting a 10x reduction in database
size isn't unexpected. Using pg_dumpall and bzip2 the databases on
http://stats.distributed.net go from 41G down to 2G.
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