Thread: page size in postgresql

On my machine, getpagesize() returns 4096, so does that
mean that the page size for postgresql is 4096 bytes?
The documentation for "Monitoring disk usage" says
postgres page size is "usually" 8KB (8192 bytes). Which
one should I use?

Thanks in advance,

SK



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On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0530, sureshk2003 wrote:
> On my machine, getpagesize() returns 4096, so does that
> mean that the page size for postgresql is 4096 bytes?
> The documentation for "Monitoring disk usage" says
> postgres page size is "usually" 8KB (8192 bytes). Which
> one should I use?

The postgresql pagesize is determined at compile time and given that most
people don't fiddle it, it's going to be 8KB in 99.9% of cases.
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