[gregdeveloper]

They should break it up by time. For example your database only syncs the past month or so as needed and you can choose to request more if necessary. Someone mentioned 150MB right now. That thing is going to get massive eventually.

[cel]

The quoted 150 MB is for all messages in one's network. On my local node there are 91773 messages, going back roughly a year and a half, taking up 147 MB - of which about 72 MB is the actual messages, and the rest are indexes. gzipped, the 72 MB of messages goes down to 29 MB.