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Re: [HACKERS] include/config.h FOLLOWUP

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1998-01-05T05:08:41Z

> 
> On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Vadim B. Mikheev wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Just remember that Informix (and others) use 2K blocks.
> > > 
> > > 	So we're 4x what the commercial ones are as of right now? 
> > 
> > That is because they do not use the file system, so they try to match
> > the raw disk block sizes, while we try to match the file system size.
> 
> 	Irrelevant to my question...our tuples...are they 4x the size of the
> commercial vendors, or is Vadim talking about something altogether different?
> 
> 	If we are 4x their size, then I think this whole discussion is a joke since
> we are already *way* better then "the others"

That's a good question.  What is the maximum tuple size for Informix or
Oracle tuples?

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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us