Re: How to estimate disk space

["Chris Velevitch" <chris(dot)velevitch(at)gmail(dot)com>]

On 5/24/06, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> wrote:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/storage.html

Sorry, I forgot to mention, it's for 7.4. There doesn't seem to be the
equivalent page or subject in the 7.4 documentation. In addition, the
explaination is a high level description of table or index page but
light on the details.

> But the simplest way is to populate with a fraction of your real data
> requirements and scale that up.

I don't think works well. How do I work out the space taken by a
single table that grows at a different rate than another table?


Chris
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