Re: Time Series on Postgres (HOWTO?)

On 2011-01-15, bubba postgres <bubba.postgres@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've been googling, but haven't found a good answer to what I should do if I
> want to store time series in Postgres.

> It would be nice if I could use 1 sample per column,(because updating
> individual columns/samples is clear to me) but postgres doesn't compress the
> row (which is bad because of high amount of repetitive data.. Easily 10X
> bigger.

if there are lots of equal readings perhaps you can drop them and only
record when the reading changes.

this would probably require one table per source.

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