Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] Business cases

On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Darren King wrote:

> 16GB?!?  Not unless your tuples are 8k.  The 8k is/was the max _tuple_ size,
> but more than one tuple can be stored per block. :)
> 
> Try the formula in the FAQ to get a reasonable estimate for the table's size.

  The sentence "Tuples do not cross 8k boundaries so a 5k tuple will
require 8k of storage" in 3.8 of the FAQ confused me.  I did not realize
that multiple tuples could be stored in a page.  So I took it to mean
that one tuple was stored in page.  I didn't even even see 3.26, because I
thought that 3.8 answered my question :(

Tom