Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> On 1/31/2007 12:41 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> We can't change TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE without forcing an initdb, but I
>> think that it would be safe to remove the MAXALIGN'ing of the tuple
>> size in the tests in heapam.c, that is

> Can't we maxalign the page header in the calculations?

Actually, the page header size *is* maxaligned.  The problem is that
TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD isn't.

We could make it so, but that would change TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE thus
forcing an initdb.  I think simply removing the MAXALIGN operations
in the code is a better answer, as it eliminates some rather pointless
overhead.  There's no particular reason why the threshold needs to be
maxaligned ...

			regards, tom lane

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