Re: After dump of 4.2 GB SQL file Equal to hard disk space???

"David G. Johnston" <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Dec 2018 20:31:50 -0500

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On Thursday, December 6, 2018, Kirti Pathak <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> I have a database of size 4.2 GB SQL file. If I dump this file then I
> would like to know how big (in GB) it will be when loaded into PostgreSQL
>

Without knowing what that 4.2GB is comprised of its difficult to estimate
(it is anyway...).  Assume between 5 and 20 GB but probably closer to
10GB.  At that size why do you even care about estimating?

David J.