[mapserver-users] Re: Raster Data from PostGIS

Mon Aug 22 00:59:55 EDT 2011

Gustavo1376 wrote:

>  I mean, i
> think that a PostGis with 500GB storage capacity should be able to store
> much more images than a flat file system with same capacity.

Unfortunate database can not do such a magic. Database tables are also stored into files, and I do not believe that they are especially well compressed. Probably your images would take more disk space in the database than as image files.

-Jukka Rahkonen-