AW: [HACKERS] generic LONG VARLENA - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SB
Subject AW: [HACKERS] generic LONG VARLENA
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> > Since lob's are typically large, the large overhead would 
> be especially
> > painful, so a different relkind with another pagelayout 
> seems adequate.
> 
>     No, I think a single Oid index  on  a  relation,  where  only
>     usually large tuples are stored is a very small overhead.

Well actually it will be one tuple per ~8k, so more than the 
original tuple count, but I also meant the ~40 bytes per tuple
in the datapage.

But your arguments sound convincing :-)
Andreas


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