Re: Unbounded (Possibly) Database Size Increase - Toasting

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 19:37, Tom Lane wrote:
> Mark kirkwood <markir@slingshot.co.nz> writes:
> > However I could not get any size stabilization in the toasted case.
> 
> Hmm.  Which file(s) were growing, exactly?  How many row updates is this
> run covering?
> 
> I'd rather expect the toast indexes to grow given the lack-of-btree-
> collapse-logic issue. 

Why sould the toast indexes grow significantly more than the primary key
of main table ?

> However, the rate of growth ought to be pretty
> tiny --- much less than the amount of data being pumped through, for
> sure.

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Hannu