Re: setting the block size to a value greater than 32KB - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: setting the block size to a value greater than 32KB
Date
Msg-id 9756.1259613246@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to setting the block size to a value greater than 32KB  (umut orhan <umut_angelfire@yahoo.com>)
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umut orhan <umut_angelfire@yahoo.com> writes:
> I would like to set the block size used in buffer cache to a specific
> value which is greater than 32KB (let's say --with-block-size=256). Is
> there are way to do that?

No, not without major surgery on the representation of item pointers.
What makes you think there would be any benefit to such large block
sizes?

            regards, tom lane

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