"Dale Anderson" <danderso(at)crystalsugar(dot)com> writes:
> Is the relpages counts under 7.1 no longer valid of the physical page
> storage?
It's still valid, but you need to include the associated TOAST table
as well as the primary relation.
Keep in mind also that TOAST can do inline compression. If you made
your test record with something like repeat('x',29000), it probably
got compressed to not very many bytes ...
regards, tom lane