Re: Re: Out of disk space - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Re: Out of disk space
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In response to Re: Out of disk space  (ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca)
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ghaverla@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
>
> Following up on an earlier note, i gather nobody on this list
> either knows how to clean-up all those xinv* file in the dbase,
> or don't know what I am talking about.  So, I should ask elsewhere.

Nope sorry, never heard of them...

> Related question, maybe someone knows the answer to this.  If
> I am storing "words" in a tuple, I would be better trying to
> get almost 8k worth of words in a tuple, instead of having
> 800 tuples with words of 10 bytes each in it?

Store it in the most convenient way for you and let the database
decide on how to most efficiently store your data. Isn't that
what databases are for?
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@cupid.suninternet.com>
http://cupid.suninternet.com/~kleptog/

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