[OSM-talk] OSM Postgres table sizes (was: Failed to download 9.5 GB planet)

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:39 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25 June 2010 00:28, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>> overall disk use ~ 130 GB and growing about 2.5 GB/week at the moment.
>
> Is there a way to reduce this overhead without re-importing?

I'm not sure I understand your question.

You can import a bounding box or extract and have smaller tables.

You can import without --slim, if you have the hardware for it, and
lose some large tables.  But then you lose the ability to update
unless you do a re-import.

Other alternatives?