Re: Any risk in increasing BLCKSZ to get larger tuples?

From: Elmar Haneke <elmar(at)haneke(dot)de>
To: PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Any risk in increasing BLCKSZ to get larger tuples?
Date: 2000-10-20 06:56:54
Message-ID: 39EFECB6.FBEC2EF2@haneke.de
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Steve Wolfe wrote:

> Hmm... that doesn't seem quite right to me. Whether it is compressed or
> not, the same amount of final data has to move across the system bus to the
> CPU for processing.

Thats correct as far as your disk is bottlenecked by the system bus
:-)

Elmar

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