[OSM-talk] Planet database size?

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Tue Oct 19 13:11:50 BST 2010


On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Toby Murray <toby.murray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Simon Biber <simonbiber at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>> Hope you have enough space to continue resizing!
>
> Yeah I guess that's at least an upper bound. Doesn't each change
> create another copy of a given object? So I'm guessing there may be
> quite a bit of space savings by only importing the current version of
> everything. I have about another 500 GB free for a total of 1TB. This
> is a 2TB RAID5 (3x1TB) setup with 1TB already in use. But at this rate
> the import won't even finish by the time this project is due so
> yeah... I'm going ahead with my Kansas extract for now :)

My planet mirror is still well under 200GB and I haven't vacuum-ed in
a while.  Are you using planet, or the full-history planet?

What options are you using in osm2pgsql ?



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