Re: Variable versus constrant size tuples

From: Krzysztof Chodak <krzysztof(dot)chodak(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, andy(at)squeakycode(dot)net
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Variable versus constrant size tuples
Date: 2011-08-19 15:19:34
Message-ID: CAMiSJ3pgqPE851Ra3Ri3R6vkD8BODamQJ3R9tNWjnkA6oT0EJA@mail.gmail.com
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Thank you. Now I see that page consists of record pointers list build
from offset and length so there is no benefit of having constant
length here.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 17:03, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Krzysztof Chodak
> <krzysztof(dot)chodak(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Is there any performance benefit of using constant size tuples?
>
> not really.  If your tuple size is under a known maximum length, then
> a toast table doesn't have to be created.  that's a pretty minor
> detail though.
>
> merlin
>

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