Re: Increasing row size beyond 8k - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Increasing row size beyond 8k
Date
Msg-id 4105.959572499@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Increasing row size beyond 8k  ("Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net>)
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"Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net> writes:
>     There was some talk a while back of changing the blocksize to 32k in
> order to increase possible row size, I need to do this (and don't want to
> screw anything up) but am unsure about how to go about it.. Is BLKSZ (if
> that's even correct) simply a PG variable somewhere?

It's near the head of src/include/config.h (or config.h.in if you
are doing the edit before running configure).  Edit, rebuild the
system, away you go.  Don't forget you will need to initdb after
installing the rebuilt postmaster...

> That sounds like what I'm looking for and since it's set to 8k, looks like
> what I'm looking for -- so would I be correct in changing this value and
> re-compiling my kernel?

No no no, do not touch your kernel.
        regards, tom lane


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