Page and block can be used interchangeably, but the description of relpages
in the documentation can be confusing to someone who doesn't care much
about the difference between page and block.
When I want to count pages from a table, maybe the keywords I should look
for should be "the number of", bu
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 11:25:52AM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 9:40 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> > Yeah, we use "blocks" and "pages" interchangeably, which is something
> > I don't feel a need to change; but evidently the OP didn't realize that.
> > This is a job for the glossa
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 9:40 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> Yeah, we use "blocks" and "pages" interchangeably, which is something
> I don't feel a need to change; but evidently the OP didn't realize that.
> This is a job for the glossary, perhaps?
I think that they're synonyms that can often (but not alway
Alvaro Herrera writes:
> On 2022-Aug-19, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Well, blocks and pages are the same size, so I don't see the problem.
> If you think about operating system "blocks" rather than Postgres
> "blocks", I can see how this can be interpreted differently. I'm not
> sure if this is a go
On 2022-Aug-19, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 04:10:30AM +, PG Doc comments form wrote:
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> > From source code, t
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 04:10:30AM +, PG Doc comments form wrote:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/catalog-pg-class.html
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> From source code, the relpage is the number of blocks. But, at the docu
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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/catalog-pg-class.html
Description:
From source code, the relpage is the number of blocks. But, at the document,
it is written as Size of the on-disk representation of this table in pages
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