AW: [HACKERS] Volunteer: Large Tuples / Tuple chaining

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: AW: [HACKERS] Volunteer: Large Tuples / Tuple chaining
Date: 1999-12-14 10:05:05
Message-ID: 219F68D65015D011A8E000006F8590C603FDC1BD@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> Hmm,we have discussed about LONG.
> Change by LONG is transparent to users and would resolve
> the big tuple problem mostly.
> I'm suspicious that tuple chaining is worth the work now.

All commercial db's I know allow at least 32kb tuples,
they all do it with chaining, because they usually have a
smaller (often configurable) pagesize.
Imho it is definitely worth it.

Andreas

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