On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Tadipathri Raghu wrote:
As per the documentation, one page is 8kb, when i create a table with int as one column its 4 bytes. If i insert 2000 rows, it should be in one page only as its 8kb, but its extending vastly as expected. Example shown below, taking the previous example table test with one column.
There is more to a row than just the single int column. The space used by a column will include a column start marker (data length), transaction ids, hint bits, an oid, a description of the types of the columns, and finally your data columns. That takes a bit more space.
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