Thank you Send from my Mobile ________________________________ From: Simon Riggs <simon.ri...@enterprisedb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2022 3:48:02 PM To: Daniel Westermann (DWE) <daniel.westerm...@dbi-services.com> Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org> Subject: Re: Are we really using 23 bytes on most machines?
On Tue, 20 Sept 2022 at 13:24, Daniel Westermann (DWE) <daniel.westerm...@dbi-services.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-page-layout.html > "(occupying 23 bytes on most machines)" > > Is this still true? At least on Linux it is 24 bytes: > > postgres=# select pg_column_size( row() ); > > pg_column_size > ---------------- > > 24 Yes, but it is MAXALIGNED, which is documented. So the value you see is correct and matches the docs. -- Simon Riggs http://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
