| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Daniel Stolk <stolkd(at)email(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Increasing size of BLCKSZ |
| Date: | 1999-12-08 00:50:59 |
| Message-ID: | 199912080050.TAA17942@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if somebody could tell me why the BLCKSZ of a page is so
> small? Because this causes considerable waste of space since there is
> going to be an empty slot at the end of each page that is too small to
> be used. What would happen if I increased it to 32K?
It is the size of a usual disk file system block.
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