Gregory Stark wrote:
> By my count postgres would use 154 bytes for this record. Whereas in
> fact there's no need for it to take more than 87 bytes. Almost 100%
> overhead for varattlen headers and the padding they necessitate.
The thing is, 100% extra space is cheap, but the processing power for
making the need for that extra space go away is not.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/