From bc6fb5436fa423aebb8616b1eb7d55d2c09d6300 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 03:43:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update FAQ for new 24-byte header, down from 28.
---
doc/FAQ | 18 +++++++++---------
doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html | 18 +++++++++---------
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/FAQ b/doc/FAQ
index 0f4e45b269c..9754fe8127f 100644
--- a/doc/FAQ
+++ b/doc/FAQ
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
- Last updated: Tue Feb 6 22:16:17 EST 2007
+ Last updated: Thu Feb 8 22:43:13 EST 2007
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us)
@@ -547,25 +547,25 @@
As an example, consider a file of 100,000 lines with an integer and
text description on each line. Suppose the text string avergages
twenty bytes in length. The flat file would be 2.8 MB. The size of the
- PostgreSQL database file containing this data can be estimated as 5.6
+ PostgreSQL database file containing this data can be estimated as 5.2
MB:
- 28 bytes: each row header (approximate)
+ 24 bytes: each row header (approximate)
24 bytes: one int field and one text field
+ 4 bytes: pointer on page to tuple
----------------------------------------
- 56 bytes per row
+ 52 bytes per row
The data page size in PostgreSQL is 8192 bytes (8 KB), so:
8192 bytes per page
- ------------------- = 146 rows per database page (rounded down)
- 56 bytes per row
+ ------------------- = 158 rows per database page (rounded down)
+ 52 bytes per row
100000 data rows
- -------------------- = 685 database pages (rounded up)
- 146 rows per page
+ -------------------- = 633 database pages (rounded up)
+ 158 rows per page
-685 database pages * 8192 bytes per page = 5,611,520 bytes (5.6 MB)
+633 database pages * 8192 bytes per page = 5,185,536 bytes (5.2 MB)
Indexes do not require as much overhead, but do contain the data that
is being indexed, so they can be large also.
diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
index fdcced96bf9..61e386aa3de 100644
--- a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
+++ b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
alink="#0000ff">
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL</H1>
- <P>Last updated: Tue Feb 6 22:16:17 EST 2007</P>
+ <P>Last updated: Thu Feb 8 22:43:13 EST 2007</P>
<P>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<A href=
"mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</A>)
@@ -720,25 +720,25 @@ table?</TD><TD>unlimited</TD></TR>
and text description on each line. Suppose the text string
avergages twenty bytes in length. The flat file would be 2.8 MB.
The size of the PostgreSQL database file containing this data can
- be estimated as 5.6 MB:</P>
+ be estimated as 5.2 MB:</P>
<PRE>
- 28 bytes: each row header (approximate)
+ 24 bytes: each row header (approximate)
24 bytes: one int field and one text field
+ 4 bytes: pointer on page to tuple
----------------------------------------
- 56 bytes per row
+ 52 bytes per row
The data page size in PostgreSQL is 8192 bytes (8 KB), so:
8192 bytes per page
- ------------------- = 146 rows per database page (rounded down)
- 56 bytes per row
+ ------------------- = 158 rows per database page (rounded down)
+ 52 bytes per row
100000 data rows
- -------------------- = 685 database pages (rounded up)
- 146 rows per page
+ -------------------- = 633 database pages (rounded up)
+ 158 rows per page
-685 database pages * 8192 bytes per page = 5,611,520 bytes (5.6 MB)
+633 database pages * 8192 bytes per page = 5,185,536 bytes (5.2 MB)
</PRE>
<P>Indexes do not require as much overhead, but do contain the data
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