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On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:36:02 -0500
Michael Stone <mstone+postgres@mathom.us> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 07:19:10PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >It was correct, but not as of 8.3. Considering you could save a
> >whole one byte by not storing the netmask
>
> Hmm. One for the netmask, plus the other two mystery bytes. :-) A
> byte here and a byte there is fine. 20% of a few billion IPs does
> start to add up.
About a 65.00 hard disk:
select pg_size_pretty((500000000000 * 0.2)::bigint);
pg_size_pretty
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93 GB
But wumpf... that is a lot of ip addresses. Question is.. are you going
to have a few billion IPs in your database? Doubtful.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> Mike Stone
>
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