Re: setting the block size to a value greater than 32KB

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: umut orhan <umut_angelfire(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: setting the block size to a value greater than 32KB
Date: 2009-11-30 20:34:06
Message-ID: 9756.1259613246@sss.pgh.pa.us
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umut orhan <umut_angelfire(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> I would like to set the block size used in buffer cache to a specific
> value which is greater than 32KB (let's say --with-block-size=256). Is
> there are way to do that?

No, not without major surgery on the representation of item pointers.
What makes you think there would be any benefit to such large block
sizes?

regards, tom lane

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