Re: PostgreSQL and mySQL database size question

Fred Ingham wrote:
> OK, but that only accounts for 3.2MB of the extra 49.6MB used by PostgreSQL.

    Template databases, system catalog, WAL files?

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us]
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 2:05 PM
> To: ingham@erols.com
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and mySQL database size question
>
>
>
> FAQ item 4.7 discusses table size computations.   My guess is that it is
> the 36 bytes-per-row that is the problem.  Those bytes record the
> visibility of the row for proper transactions semantics and MVCC.


Jan

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