Re: Column Sizes

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Adam Ruth <aruth(at)intercation(dot)com>
Cc: "Brett Maton" <brett(dot)maton(at)itaccounting(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Column Sizes
Date: 2003-11-13 17:24:15
Message-ID: 27881.1068744255@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Adam Ruth <aruth(at)intercation(dot)com> writes:
> ... It does seem that the large
> object functions do split the data into 2k chunks, but it would
> probably be a simple thing to check the source to determine if this is
> always true. But it could always change in a future version.

My recollection is that the large object chunk size is defined as BLCKSZ/4,
so you'd get 2K with the default 8K block size, but it could also be
4K or 8K with the other likely choices for block size.

regards, tom lane

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