Re: Does standalone postfrsql have autogrowth/ manual growth on table space?

2022-10-20 Thread Christophe Pettus
> On Oct 20, 2022, at 11:45, Vince McMahon > wrote: > > Thanks. I guess it is time for vacuum.  Ironically, vacuum is the main issue. The main reason that you can't just slap a few gigabytes onto the end of a table is that the next time vacuum runs, it will happily truncate it all

Re: Does standalone postfrsql have autogrowth/ manual growth on table space?

2022-10-20 Thread Vince McMahon
Thanks. I guess it is time for vacuum.  On Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 13:34 Christophe Pettus wrote: > > > > On Oct 20, 2022, at 10:29, Ron wrote: > > There's no pre-allocation in Postgresql. > > This is correct in that you can't say "please allocate 3GB for this table > for me now." The number of

Re: Does standalone postfrsql have autogrowth/ manual growth on table space?

2022-10-20 Thread Christophe Pettus
> On Oct 20, 2022, at 10:29, Ron wrote: > There's no pre-allocation in Postgresql. This is correct in that you can't say "please allocate 3GB for this table for me now." The number of pages that are added to the end of a file isn't always one though; it can allocate more based on recent

Re: Does standalone postfrsql have autogrowth/ manual growth on table space?

2022-10-20 Thread Ron
On 10/20/22 12:31, Rob Sargent wrote: On 10/20/22 11:29, Ron wrote: 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?

Re: Does standalone postfrsql have autogrowth/ manual growth on table space?

2022-10-20 Thread Rob Sargent
On 10/20/22 11:29, Ron wrote: 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. 

Re: Does standalone postfrsql have autogrowth/ manual growth on table space?

2022-10-20 Thread Ron
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

Does standalone postfrsql have autogrowth/ manual growth on table space?

2022-10-20 Thread Vince McMahon
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?