Excerpts from Richard Huxton's message of mié sep 01 16:39:55 -0400 2010:
> OK - so not fillfactor and not some unicode-related padding. I can't see
> how a 32 vs 64-bit architecture change could produce anything like a
> doubling of database size.
Depending on table schemas, why not? e.g. consider a table with a
single bool column. It will waste 7 bytes on 8-byte MAXALIGN machine
but only 3 on a 4-byte MAXALIGN machine. Of course, this is a corner
case. Devrim didn't specify the platform on each server AFAICS.
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