"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:50:12PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> The big question is do we want to drop the target tuple size down to >> 512, and increase the chunk size to 8k for 8.3?
> If we do that people could see their disk space usage increase by up to > 16x: currently 513 bytes fits in heap and takes (roughly) 513 bytes; if > we make that change it would then get toasted and take 8K. That argument is completely bogus --- having a toast chunk size of 8K does not mean that smaller rows occupy 8K. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly