Re: Large Object table data file does not have expected size

Compression? Postgres tends to compress large fields.

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:08:34AM +0200, u15074 wrote:
> I am a little bit confused by the following effect.
> For test reasons I insert about 100000 large objects into the database. Each has
> a size of 10240 Bytes (10K). So the expected size of the large object datafile
> should be at least 1024000000 Bytes (about 976MB) just to hold the large objects.
> But the according data file is much smaller than that. If I query the large
> objetcs from psql all data seems to be there (i just randomly picked out some
> large objects). I first thought there was a bug in my test program (not all
> large objetcs are inserted), but I couldn't find one. Also this was unlikely,
> since I always insert the same binary data (for the large objetc) in a simple loop.
>
> Has anyone an idea why the datafiles are much smaller than I expect them to be?
>
> Thanks, Andreas.
>
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