AW: [HACKERS] generic LONG VARLENA

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'wieck(at)debis(dot)com'" <wieck(at)debis(dot)com>
Cc: hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: AW: [HACKERS] generic LONG VARLENA
Date: 1999-12-13 14:49:51
Message-ID: 219F68D65015D011A8E000006F8590C603FDC1B9@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> > Since lob's are typically large, the large overhead would
> be especially
> > painful, so a different relkind with another pagelayout
> seems adequate.
>
> No, I think a single Oid index on a relation, where only
> usually large tuples are stored is a very small overhead.

Well actually it will be one tuple per ~8k, so more than the
original tuple count, but I also meant the ~40 bytes per tuple
in the datapage.

But your arguments sound convincing :-)
Andreas

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