Re: Billions of records?

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:53:37PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> Each tuple in postgresql has around 28 bytes of overhead. Index tuple has 12

Is this accurate?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=1&file=page.html
indicates a per-tuple overhead of 23 bytes. Or have things changed in
7.4?

BTW, is there any documentation on the structure of index pages?
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