Smaller db in 8.3 (was: Re: insert ... delete ... returning ... ?)

From: Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgresql-Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Smaller db in 8.3 (was: Re: insert ... delete ... returning ... ?)
Date: 2008-02-25 13:47:23
Message-ID: 47C2C6EB.7000500@mark.mielke.cc
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc> writes:
>
>> I'm noticing a massive reduction in on disk storage required for my
>> database that I believe is primarily attributable due to Tom's reduced
>> overhead for short strings.
>>
>
> Twasn't my work; Greg Stark gets most of the credit for that one, and
> you might be seeing some benefit from Heikki's work to cut the tuple
> header size too.
>

Oops. You are right. Thanks Greg and Heikki! Whatever you did works
great! :-)

Cheers,
mark

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Mark Mielke <mark(at)mielke(dot)cc>

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