Sander Pilon wrote:
>Lose (some of) the keys!? Keys, especially on small rows (where a key
>introduces a lot of overhead), can take a significant percentage of
>space.
>
>Turn on key compression? (dunno if innodb supports that)
>
>Other then that I wouldn't know. But live with the fact that keys
>introduce overhead. It will be like that on any database system.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Xavier Leoncini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: 30 July 2001 04:34
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Innodb table size
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>>Hello,
>>I was wondering if someone could help me;
>>When I load about 6Gb of raw data into a innodb table
>>the size used by the table is about 14G.
>>I noticed in preleminary tests that the sized used depends a
>>lot on the
>>number of rows
>>in the case described above the data has about 180 millions rows, 4
>>columns and three keys
>>on the first three columns.
>>Does anyone know how to get a better ratio, something closer
>>to 6-9Gb use. Thanks in advance. Xavier
>>
>>
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To be more precise,
I have a primary key defined on the first three columns, and I kind of
do not have much choice
on that. I am surprised by the overhead as innodb has clustered indexing
defined on the primary key.
A typical row is about 35 bytes.
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