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. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster