Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
- Last updated: Thu Aug 11 09:21:58 EDT 2005
+ Last updated: Thu Sep 1 12:17:52 EDT 2005
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 6.4
MB:
- 32 bytes: each row header (approximate)
+ 28 bytes: each row header (approximate)
24 bytes: one int field and one text field
+ 4 bytes: pointer on page to tuple
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- 60 bytes per row
+ 56 bytes per row
The data page size in PostgreSQL is 8192 bytes (8 KB), so:
8192 bytes per page
- ------------------- = 136 rows per database page (rounded down)
- 60 bytes per row
+ ------------------- = 146 rows per database page (rounded down)
+ 56 bytes per row
100000 data rows
- -------------------- = 735 database pages (rounded up)
- 128 rows per page
+ -------------------- = 685 database pages (rounded up)
+ 146 rows per page
-735 database pages * 8192 bytes per page = 6,021,120 bytes (6 MB)
+685 database pages * 8192 bytes per page = 5,611,520 bytes (5.6 MB)
Indexes do not require as much overhead, but do contain the data that
is being indexed, so they can be large also.