Re: Are we really using 23 bytes on most machines? - Mailing list pgsql-docs

On Tue, 20 Sept 2022 at 13:24, Daniel Westermann (DWE)
<daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-page-layout.html
> "(occupying 23 bytes on most machines)"
>
> Is this still true? At least on Linux it is 24 bytes:
>
> postgres=# select pg_column_size( row() );
>
>  pg_column_size
> ----------------
>
>              24

Yes, but it is MAXALIGNED, which is documented. So the value you see
is correct and matches the docs.

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