Re: [GENERAL] Increasing size of BLCKSZ - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Increasing size of BLCKSZ
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Msg-id 199912080050.TAA17942@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Increasing size of BLCKSZ  (Daniel Stolk <stolkd@email.com>)
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> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if somebody could tell me why the BLCKSZ of a page is so
> small?  Because this causes considerable waste of space since there is
> going to be an empty slot at the end of each page that is too small to
> be used.  What would happen if I increased it to 32K?

It is the size of a usual disk file system block.

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