Re: Increased size of database dump even though LESS consumed storage

2021-02-10 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Thorsten Schöning, am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2021 um 09:58 schrieben Sie: >> unpartitioned: 6,4 GiB >> half-yearly parts: 4,8 GiB >> yearly parts: 4,8 GiB The above number for `unpartitioned` might be wrong: I've re-created the same database, applied the same data migration like

Re: Increased size of database dump even though LESS consumed storage

2021-02-10 Thread Francisco Olarte
Thorsten: On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:46 PM Thorsten Schöning wrote: UUppzz, completely missed the second message. > > CREATE INDEX idx_datagram_for_time_window ON datagram USING btree > > (src_meter, captured_at DESC); Depending on the query and data "shape", this may be chosen or not for

Re: Increased size of database dump even though LESS consumed storage

2021-02-10 Thread Francisco Olarte
Thorsten: On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:36 PM Thorsten Schöning wrote: > Guten Tag Francisco Olarte, > am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2021 um 10:38 schrieben Sie: > > [...]and partitioning sorts partially > > by date ( or fully if you have made the partitions by range-querying > > via index scan ).[...] >

Re: Increased size of database dump even though LESS consumed storage

2021-02-10 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Francisco Olarte, am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2021 um 10:38 schrieben Sie: > [...]and partitioning sorts partially > by date ( or fully if you have made the partitions by range-querying > via index scan ).[...] That statement is especially interesting not only because of my dump-size, but

Re: Increased size of database dump even though LESS consumed storage

2021-02-10 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Francisco Olarte, am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2021 um 10:38 schrieben Sie: > [...]and partitioning sorts partially > by date ( or fully if you have made the partitions by range-querying > via index scan ).[...] That statement is especially interesting not only because of my dump-size, but

Re: Increased size of database dump even though LESS consumed storage

2021-02-10 Thread Francisco Olarte
Thorsten: On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 9:58 AM Thorsten Schöning wrote: ... > I've changed the new table "datagram" to be a partitioned one with > partitions containing rows per year and per half-year. Each partition > contains far less rows than before this way and while I only tested > with "--compr

Re: Increased size of database dump even though LESS consumed storage

2021-02-10 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Thorsten Schöning, am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2021 um 10:56 schrieben Sie: > Any explanation for the increased dump size? Thanks! While I don't have a detailed explanation myself, there's the following hint [in the docs][1]: > For the custom archive format, this specifies compression of

Re: Increased size of database dump even though LESS consumed storage

2021-02-09 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Thorsten Schöning, am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2021 um 10:56 schrieben Sie: > Any explanation for the increased dump size? Thanks! Some more data: > --compress=0: 20 vs. 25 GiB > --compress=DEFAULT: 6,5 vs. 5,6 GiB > --compress=9: 6,4 vs. 5,5 GiB From the docs: > For the cus

Re: Increased size of database dump even though LESS consumed storage

2021-02-09 Thread Tom Lane
=?utf-8?B?VGhvcnN0ZW4gU2Now7ZuaW5n?= writes: > for various reasons I've migrated my database schema from 4 tables > with some additional indexes to keep integrity and stuff to 1 table > only. That made some of the former used indexes obsolete and resulted > in overall less consumed storage: > The o