Re: Storage Inefficiency In PostgreSQL

2019-04-16 Thread Kevin Wilkinson
we were able to use a brin index for our time-series data and that saved a lot of space. basically, we used a btree for recent data and, once the data was "stable", reclustered the data to get high correlation on the brin index, created a brin index and dropped the btree. it works well. On 4/1

Re: Storage Inefficiency In PostgreSQL

2019-04-15 Thread Chris Travers
On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:43 AM Ray Cheung < ray.che...@silverpowersystems.com> wrote: > Hi , > > We are currently contemplating switching from MySQL to PostgreSQL, the main > attraction being the use of the TimescaleDB extension. Having done much of > the ground investigation there is one area o

Storage Inefficiency In PostgreSQL

2019-04-15 Thread Ray Cheung
Hi , We are currently contemplating switching from MySQL to PostgreSQL, the main attraction being the use of the TimescaleDB extension. Having done much of the ground investigation there is one area of significant concern - the storage requirement of PostgreSQL. Put simply, comparing like for like