On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 13:36, Gerard Samuel wrote: > Im not sure if this is the right list, but here goes. > I have a dev box, that I allocated, 104M of space to share between, > mysql & pgsql. > In mysql, I have 376 tables across 11 databases which is taking up only > 1.3M. > In pgsql, I have 33 tables on 1 database, and that seems to be taking up > 74M. > > Does postgresql require soooo much disk space to operate?? > Thanks for any insight you may provide. Surely we'd need to know how many _rows_ there are in those tables? Also how many indexes and index rows? I believe that PostgreSQL does have greater overhead on disk than MySQL, however. Just to have the database started will mean that you have a number of write-ahead logs (typically 16MB each - on my laptop these take up 114M) which are used internally by the database server for transaction handling - MySQL doesn't need these, of course. Cheers, Andrew. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew @ Catalyst .Net.NZ Ltd, PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington WEB: http://catalyst.net.nz/ PHYS: Level 2, 150-154 Willis St DDI: +64(4)916-7201 MOB: +64(21)635-694 OFFICE: +64(4)499-2267 Survey for nothing with http://survey.net.nz/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
