Re: Pg and compress - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: Pg and compress
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Msg-id 4E80D38F.3010500@hogranch.com
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In response to Pg and compress  (Jov <zhao6014@gmail.com>)
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On 09/26/11 6:59 AM, Jov wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> We are going to use pg as data warehouse,but after some test,we found
> that plain text with csv format is 3 times bigger when load to pg.we
> use copy to load data.we try some optimize and it reduce to 2.5 times
> bigger.other db can  avarage compress  to 1/3 of the plain text.bigger
> data means heavy io.
> So my question is how to make data compressed in pg?is some fs  such
> as zfs,berfs with compression feature can work well with pg?
>

your source data is CSV, what data types are the fields in the table(s)
? do you have a lot of indexes on this table(s)?



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