Re: varying pagesize in postgresql - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: varying pagesize in postgresql
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Msg-id 20050621165844.GB528@decibel.org
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In response to varying pagesize in postgresql  (gayatri ganpaa <gayatri_ganpaa@yahoo.com>)
Responses Re: varying pagesize in postgresql  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@surnet.cl>)
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pg_dumpall
Change something in one of the header files (which is docummented
somewhere...)
Recompile, install, initdb
restore from backup

Of course the backup/restore are optional if you don't care about your
data...

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:09:36PM -0700, gayatri ganpaa wrote:
> Hi,
> How do I change the page size in postgresql? I have the postgresql-7.4.3 version.
> I am trying to create an r*-tree index on a spatial table with around 100,000 rows. I just want to check if
increasingthe page size would make the join of two tables faster. Are there any other options I could use to make this
faster?Would increasing the page size help? 
>
> Thanks,
> gayatri.
>
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