Re: !!! Compress individual tables with postgres

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Shabala Deshpande <de.shabala@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have very large databases that are in postgresql (200Gbs+) and individual
> tables that take up as huge space. I know that in mysql one can compress
> individual tables with isam-compression. I understand that postgresql
> compresses text automatically, is there anyway to compress my large database
> further?
> Isn't there any specific method to compress the tables?? or does postgres
> handle it on its own? cause I have a large nos of daily generated tables
> with footprint of each of the table to be quite big.. so i need to compress
> the individual tables.. please help.
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Shabala Deshpande

PostgreSQL might already be compressing your data. See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/storage-toast.html

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