Re: LibPQ: PQresultMemorySize as proxy to transfered bytes

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 1:22 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> I wrote:
> > That number is the total space actually requested from malloc() for
> > the PGresult object. But we request space in blocks (typically 2KB
> > each), so there's some overhead due to fields not exactly filling
> > a block, unused space in the last block, etc. If you're testing
> > with very small result sets (say a couple hundred KB)
>
> Sigh, obviously I meant a couple hundred *bytes* there. -ENOCAFFEINE
>

Thanks Tom. --DD

PS: I was hoping for answers to my other questions too,
but I guess that means there are no good answers to those.