Re: Does standalone postfrsql have autogrowth/ manual growth on table space? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron
Subject Re: Does standalone postfrsql have autogrowth/ manual growth on table space?
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Msg-id 4829b4ef-430f-59cf-5143-b6754904ee16@gmail.com
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In response to Does standalone postfrsql have autogrowth/ manual growth on table space?  (Vince McMahon <sippingonesandzeros@gmail.com>)
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Re: Does standalone postfrsql have autogrowth/ manual growth on table space?
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On 10/20/22 12:19, Vince McMahon wrote:
> In other databases, there is a way to preallocate the table space to allow 
> bulk loading of data in a well packed and continuous space.
>
>
> Does psql have that auto/manual growth?

There's no pre-allocation in Postgresql.  When you run CREATE TABLE, an (I 
think) 8KiB file is created; it grows as you add more data. When it hits 
1GiB in size, another table is created.  And then another and another and 
another, etc.

-- 
Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.



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