Tom Lane wrote:
> Did you happen to make any notes about the disk space occupied by the
> database? One thing I was worried about was the bloat that'd occur
> in pg_proc, pg_index, and pg_proc_proname_args_nsp_index. Aside from
> costing disk space, this would indirectly slow things down due to more
> I/O to read these tables --- an effect that probably your test couldn't
> measure, since it wasn't touching very many entries in any of those
> tables.
#define INDEX_MAX_KEYS 16
#define FUNC_MAX_ARGS INDEX_MAX_KEYS
du -h --max-depth=1 /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/
2.7M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/1
2.7M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16862
2.7M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16863
2.7M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16864
3.2M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16865
2.7M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16866
17M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base
#define INDEX_MAX_KEYS 32
#define FUNC_MAX_ARGS INDEX_MAX_KEYS du -h --max-depth=1 /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/
3.1M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/1
3.1M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16862
3.1M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16863
3.1M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16864
3.6M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16865
3.1M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16866
19M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base
#define INDEX_MAX_KEYS 64
#define FUNC_MAX_ARGS INDEX_MAX_KEYS
du -h --max-depth=1 /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/
3.9M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/1
3.9M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16862
3.9M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16863
3.9M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16864
4.4M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16865
3.9M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16866
24M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base
#define INDEX_MAX_KEYS 128
#define FUNC_MAX_ARGS INDEX_MAX_KEYS
du -h --max-depth=1 /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/
5.7M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/1
5.7M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16862
5.7M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16863
5.7M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16864
6.3M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16865
5.7M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base/16866
35M /opt/data/pgsql/data/base
Joe