On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Pei He <hepeim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> In ctid, there are the block num, and the tuple offset inside the block.
>
> How can I know the maximum number of tuples in a block?
> The block size would be BLCKSZ.

See MaxHeapTuplesPerPage and MaxIndexTuplesPerPage.

> I am not quite sure where is the best place to find the size of the tuple in
> a table.

You might want to look at contrib/pageinspect.  See also PageGetItemId
and ItemIdGetLength.

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