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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