Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] Business cases - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] Business cases
Date
Msg-id Pine.BSF.3.95q.980117180526.471B-100000@misery.sdf.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] Business cases  (darrenk@insightdist.com (Darren King))
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On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Darren King wrote:

> 16GB?!?  Not unless your tuples are 8k.  The 8k is/was the max _tuple_ size,
> but more than one tuple can be stored per block. :)
>
> Try the formula in the FAQ to get a reasonable estimate for the table's size.

  The sentence "Tuples do not cross 8k boundaries so a 5k tuple will
require 8k of storage" in 3.8 of the FAQ confused me.  I did not realize
that multiple tuples could be stored in a page.  So I took it to mean
that one tuple was stored in page.  I didn't even even see 3.26, because I
thought that 3.8 answered my question :(

Tom


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