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. -- Michael Fuhr
