Re: page size in postgresql

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 08:49:46AM +0530, sureshk2003 wrote:
> On my machine, getpagesize() returns 4096, so does that
> mean that the page size for postgresql is 4096 bytes?
> The documentation for "Monitoring disk usage" says
> postgres page size is "usually" 8KB (8192 bytes). Which
> one should I use?

The postgresql pagesize is determined at compile time and given that most
people don't fiddle it, it's going to be 8KB in 99.9% of cases.
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