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Re: US Census database (Tiger 2004FE)

Mark Woodward <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>

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From: "Mark Woodward" <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>
To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: "David Fetter" <david@fetter.org>, "Mark Woodward" <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>
Date: 2005-08-04T11:15:43Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Wow! a lot of people seem to want it!
I am dumping out with pg_dump right now, it may take a few hours.
It is in PostgreSQL 8.0.3
Does anyone have access to a high bandwidth server? I could mail it on a
DVD to someone who would host it.

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> David Fetter wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:00:16PM -0400, Mark Woodward wrote:
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>>>I just finished converting and loading the US census data into
>>> PostgreSQL
>>>would anyone be interested in it for testing purposes?
>>>
>>>It's a *LOT* of data (about 40+ Gig in PostgreSQL)
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Sure.  Got a torrent?
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> How big is it when dumped and compressed?
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> cheers
>
> andrew
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