Re: Tuple storage overhead - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Tuple storage overhead
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Msg-id 8790.1271428452@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Tuple storage overhead  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
> On 16/04/10 10:41, Peter Bex wrote:
>> Is there a way to reduce the per-tuple storage overhead?

> Short answer - no.

About the only thing you could really do is rethink the table layout.
If you can put more data per row, then the fractional overhead for
tuple headers naturally will be less.  Whether this results in a
convenient-to-use table is hard to guess without knowing your
application ...

            regards, tom lane

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