Thread: Re: [HACKERS] include/config.h FOLLOWUP

> On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Vadim B. Mikheev wrote:
>
> > Just remember that Informix (and others) use 2K blocks.
>
>     So we're 4x what the commercial ones are as of right now?
>

Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 17:29:53 -0500
From: aixssd!darrenk (Darren King)
To: abs.net!postgreSQL.org!hackers
Subject: [HACKERS] The 8k block size.

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(All of this is taken from their respective web site docs)

           block size         max tuple size
IBM DB2        4K               4005 bytes
Sybase         2K               2016 bytes
Informix       2K               32767 bytes
Oracle     (left my Oracle books at home...oops)

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Darren  darrenk@insightdist.com

>
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Vadim B. Mikheev wrote:
> >
> > > Just remember that Informix (and others) use 2K blocks.
> >
> >     So we're 4x what the commercial ones are as of right now?
> >
>
> (All of this is taken from their respective web site docs)
>
>            block size         max tuple size
> IBM DB2        4K               4005 bytes
> Sybase         2K               2016 bytes
> Informix       2K               32767 bytes
> Oracle     (left my Oracle books at home...oops)

Wow, I guess we are not as bad as I thought.  If Peter gets large
objects working properly, we can close this issue.

--
Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us