Re: Disk usage in postgresql 8.1.4 - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: Disk usage in postgresql 8.1.4
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Msg-id 20060807012931.GA31473@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Disk usage in postgresql 8.1.4  (Geoff Parker <geoffparkernews@yahoo.ca>)
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On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 04:42:47PM -0700, Geoff Parker wrote:
>  I've got a database with about 155GB of binary data, however
> when I run the unix utility df, it reports only 60GB of disk space
> is being used.   I've extracted random samples of data from the
> database, and it all appears correct, so I presume it's not corrupt.
> Can anyone tell me whether there's some sort of disk compression
> happening with large objects?

Large objects are stored in pg_largeobject as chunks of bytea data,
which can be compressed.

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Michael Fuhr

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