Re: Dept of ugly hacks: eliminating padding space in system indexes

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 15:52 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>                             CVS HEAD    w/patch    savings
> 
> pg_database_size('postgres')                4439752    4071112    8.3%
> pg_relation_size('pg_class_relname_nsp_index')        57344    40960    28%
> pg_relation_size('pg_proc_proname_args_nsp_index')  319488    204800    35%
> 
> Cutting a third off the size of a system index has got to be worth
> something, but is it worth a hack as ugly as this one?

Not doing it would be more ugly, unless there is some negative
side-effect?

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