Are we really using 23 bytes on most machines?

From: "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel(dot)westermann(at)dbi-services(dot)com>
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Subject: Are we really using 23 bytes on most machines?
Date: 2022-09-20 12:24:08
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Hi,

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-page-layout.html
"(occupying 23 bytes on most machines)"

Is this still true? At least on Linux it is 24 bytes:

postgres=# select pg_column_size( row() );

pg_column_size  
----------------

            24

(1 row)

Regards
Daniel

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