Re: PostgreSQL Disk Usage and Page Size - Mailing list pgsql-performance

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Saleh, Amgad H (Amgad) wrote:

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> Stephan:
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> In each table we're storing the max. string length.
>
> For example:
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> for TEST_1, we're storing 'abcdefghjk'  and 'lmnop'
> for TEST_2, we're storing 'abcdefghjk'  and 'lmnopqrstu'
> for TEST_3, we're storing 'abcdefghjk'  and 'lmnopqrstuvw'

Hmm, on my machine it seemed like I was getting slightly different row
count per page results for the first two cases. The last two aren't going
to be different due to padding if the machine pads to 4 byte boundaries.