Re: Optimizer showing wrong rows in plan

See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/storage-page-layout.html for
all of what is taking up the space. Short version:
Per block overhead is > 24 bytes
Per row overhead is 23 bytes + some alignment loss + the null bitmap if you
have nullable columns

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:24 AM, raghavendra t <raagavendra(dot)rao(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> Hi Mattew,
>
> Thank you for the information.
>
> Once again, I like to thank each and everyone in this thread for there
> ultimate support.
>
> Regards
> Raghavendra
>
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Matthew Wakeling <matthew(at)flymine(dot)org>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Tadipathri Raghu wrote:
>>
>>> As per the documentation, one page is 8kb, when i create a table with int
>>> as
>>> one column its 4 bytes. If i insert 2000 rows, it should be in one page
>>> only
>>> as its 8kb, but its extending vastly as expected. Example shown below,
>>> taking the previous example table test with one column.
>>>
>>
>> There is more to a row than just the single int column. The space used by
>> a column will include a column start marker (data length), transaction ids,
>> hint bits, an oid, a description of the types of the columns, and finally
>> your data columns. That takes a bit more space.
>>
>> Matthew
>>
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