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From: Murray Cumming <murrayc@murrayc.com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Initial database size on disk
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:23:34 +0200
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On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 01:22 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 01:54 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> > When using the initdb command-line utility to create a new PostgreSQL
> > database cluster, is there any way to specify the starting size used on
> > disk? By default it seems to take around 38MB.
> 
> Why do you want to do that? Make it bigger, or smaller?

I would like to make it smaller. I use PostgreSQL in my Glom application
to host (initially) small amounts of data, starting a PostgreSQL
instance automatically whenever the data must be opened.

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