Re: Billions of records?

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
To: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Billions of records?
Date: 2003-07-16 19:45:32
Message-ID: 20030716194532.GR5877@nasby.net
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:53:37PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> Each tuple in postgresql has around 28 bytes of overhead. Index tuple has 12

Is this accurate?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=1&file=page.html
indicates a per-tuple overhead of 23 bytes. Or have things changed in
7.4?

BTW, is there any documentation on the structure of index pages?
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