> Well, it's in the FAQ under "How much database disk space is required > to store data from a typical text file?" but the per tuple overhead is > between 36 and 44 bytes. depends a bit on the version. allright... thx a lot! I did not see this point in the FAQ because I am not storing data from a textfile and did not look in that direction... What store is basically a encoding scheme of several hash bins which store distances. Thus it is just a bitvector and to the best of my knowledge a bytea or varyiing bitarray is the most space efficient method to store my information(???). Thanks again, Tschak