Re: Fixed length data types issue - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Fixed length data types issue
Date
Msg-id 200609072005.48230.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Fixed length data types issue  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Fixed length data types issue  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Re: Fixed length data types issue  (Gregory Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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Gregory Stark wrote:
> By my count postgres would use 154 bytes for this record. Whereas in
> fact there's no need for it to take more than 87 bytes. Almost 100%
> overhead for varattlen headers and the padding they necessitate.

The thing is, 100% extra space is cheap, but the processing power for 
making the need for that extra space go away is not.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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