Re: [GENERAL] How Big is Too Big for Tables?

2010-07-28 Thread P Kishor
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Stephen Frost wrote: > * P Kishor (punk.k...@gmail.com) wrote: >> Three. At least, in my case, the overhead is too much. My data are >> single bytes, but the smallest data type in Pg is smallint (2 bytes). >> That, plus the per row overhead

Re: [GENERAL] How Big is Too Big for Tables?

2010-07-28 Thread P Kishor
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 11:09 -0600, Bill Thoen wrote: >> I'm building a national database of agricultural information and one >> of the layers is a bit more than a gigabyte per state. That's 1-2 >> million records per state, with a mult po

Re: [GENERAL] optimizing daily data storage in Pg

2010-07-22 Thread P Kishor
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Andy Colson wrote: > On 7/22/2010 9:41 AM, P Kishor wrote: >> >> I have been struggling with this for a while now, have even gone down >> a few paths but struck out, so I turn now to the community for ideas. >> First, the problem: St

[GENERAL] optimizing daily data storage in Pg

2010-07-22 Thread P Kishor
I have been struggling with this for a while now, have even gone down a few paths but struck out, so I turn now to the community for ideas. First, the problem: Store six daily variables for ~ 25 years for cells in a grid. * Number of vars = 6 * Number of cells ~ 13 million * Number of days ~ 91