Re: On-Disk Tuple Size - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: On-Disk Tuple Size
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Msg-id 20020420190410.B24214@svana.org
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In response to Re: On-Disk Tuple Size  (Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>)
Responses Re: On-Disk Tuple Size  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 05:22:20PM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> > ...and 6 bytes for the CTID, which I guess may be unnecessary.
> 
> Really? How would things work without it?

Well, from my examination of the on-disk data the CTID stored there is the
same as its location in the file, so it could just be filled in while
reading.

Unless I'm misunderstanding its purpose.

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