Re: Free space management within heap page

From: "Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "ITAGAKI Takahiro" <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Free space management within heap page
Date: 2007-01-23 13:43:39
Message-ID: 2e78013d0701230543k54087265tce71bf74155dc8b1@mail.gmail.com
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On 1/23/07, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>
> ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote:
> > BLCKSZ is typically 8192 bytes and sizeof(ItemPointerData) is 4 bytes.
> > 1/4 comes from 8192 / 4 = 2048. If we allow zero-size tuples, the line
> > pointers area can bloat up to the ratio. We have tuples no less than
> > 32 bytes-size, so the area is restricted 256 bytes now.
>
> sizeof(ItemPointerData) == 6 bytes
>
>
I guess ITAGAKI meant sizeof(ItemIdData) which is 4 bytes. Thats the data
type
for the line pointer.

Thanks,
Pavan

EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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