In response to Adrian Moisey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > We currently have a 16CPU 32GB box running postgres 8.2. > > When I do a pg_dump with the following parameters "/usr/bin/pg_dump -E > UTF8 -F c -b" I get a file of 14GB in size. > > But the database is 110GB in size on the disk. Why the big difference > in size? Does this have anything to do with performance?
In a dump, indexes are a single command. In the actual database, the indexes actually contain all the data the indexes require, which can be substantially more in size than the command to create the index. Additionally, a running database has a certain amount of wasted space. If you're running vacuum on a proper schedule, this won't get out of hand. Read this page to understand better: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/maintenance.html And lastly, I expect that the pg_dump format is able to do more aggressive compression than the running database. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
