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Abuhujair Javed
Postgres FD Implementation
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Jun 21, 2002
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Bruce Momjian
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Mention "PostgreSQL"'s hashes as slower/similar to btree.
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doc/src/sgml/diskusage.sgml
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$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/diskusage.sgml,v 1.
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momjian Exp $
$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/diskusage.sgml,v 1.
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momjian Exp $
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<chapter id="diskusage">
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</para>
<para>
You can monitor disk space from two places; from inside
<application>psql</> and from the command line using
<application>contrib/oid2name</>. Using <application>psql</> you can
issue queries to see the disk usage for any table:
You can monitor disk space from three places: from
<application>psql</> using <command>VACUUM</> information, from
<application>psql</> using <application>contrib/dbsize</>, and from
the command line using <application>contrib/oid2name</>. Using
<application>psql</> on a recently vacuumed (or analyzed) database,
you can issue queries to see the disk usage of any table:
<programlisting>
play=# SELECT relfilenode, relpages
play-# FROM pg_class
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@@ -38,10 +40,10 @@ play-# WHERE relname = 'customer';
</para>
<para>
Each page is typically 8 kilobytes.
<literal>relpages</> is only
updated by <command>VACUUM</> and <command>ANALYZE</>. To show the
s
pace used by <acronym>TOAST</> tables, use a query based on the heap
relfilenod
e:
Each page is typically 8 kilobytes.
(Remember, <literal>relpages</>
is only updated by <command>VACUUM</> and <command>ANALYZE</>.) To
s
how the space used by <acronym>TOAST</> tables, use a query based on
the heap relfilenode shown abov
e:
<programlisting>
play=# SELECT relname, relpages
play-# FROM pg_class
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<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/indices.sgml,v 1.3
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<chapter id="indexes">
<title id="indexes-title">Indexes</title>
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</synopsis>
<note>
<para>
Testing has shown hash indexes to be similar or slower than btree
indexes, and the index size and build time for hash indexes is much
worse. Hash indexes also suffer poor performance under high
concurrency. For these reasons, hash index use is discouraged.
Testing has shown PostgreSQL's hash indexes to be similar or slower
than btree indexes, and the index size and build time for hash
indexes is much worse. Hash indexes also suffer poor performance
under high concurrency. For these reasons, hash index use is
discouraged.
</para>
</note>
</para>
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$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml,v 1.3
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$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_index.sgml,v 1.3
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PostgreSQL documentation
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the <literal>=</literal> operator.
</para>
<para>
Testing has shown hash indexes to be similar or slower than btree
indexes, and the index size and build time for hash indexes is much
worse. Hash indexes also suffer poor performance under high
concurrency. For these reasons, hash index use is discouraged.
Testing has shown PostgreSQL's hash indexes to be similar or slower
than btree indexes, and the index size and build time for hash
indexes is much worse. Hash indexes also suffer poor performance
under high concurrency. For these reasons, hash index use is
discouraged.
</para>
<para>
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