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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Olleg Samoylov <olleg_s@mail.ru>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BLCKSZ
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:02:38 -0500
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Olleg Samoylov <olleg_s@mail.ru> writes:
> I try to test this. Linux, memory page 4kb, disk page 4kb. I set BLCKSZ 
> to 4kb. I get some performance improve, but not big, may be because I 
> have 4Gb on test server (amd64).

It's highly unlikely that reducing BLCKSZ is a good idea.  There are bad
side-effects on the maximum index entry size, maximum number of tuple
fields, etc.  In any case, when you didn't say *what* you tested, it's
impossible to judge the usefulness of the change.

			regards, tom lane



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