Re: Storage cost of a null column

From: Randall Skelton <skelton(at)brutus(dot)uwaterloo(dot)ca>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Storage cost of a null column
Date: 2004-04-02 19:47:41
Message-ID: 9A58EB7E-84DE-11D8-BEF7-000393C92230@brutus.uwaterloo.ca
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Many thanks Tom and Martijn. It seems that I have a few tables to
reformat...

> Narrow tables are a dead loss if you're concerned about storage space
> --- you'll get eaten by the per-row overhead, which is a minimum of 28
> bytes per row.

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