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From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: I came here to determine how much storage a boolean variable uses
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 11:59 PM PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/datatype.html
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I'd like to see a fourth column added to Table 8-1 that contains the size or
size range of the data type.

I would argue this is sufficiently provided by the pg_attribute catalog's attlen and attalign fields, as pointed to on the same page linked below.

Maybe a note about the amount of space in the
row that a NULL column uses vs a NOT NULL.


Implementation detail that is covered in the internals section:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-page-layout.html#STORAGE-TUPLE-LAYOUT

David J.

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