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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Increasing row size beyond 8k From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 23:54:59 -0400 "Mitch Vincent" <mitch@venux.net> writes: > There was some talk a while back of changing the blocksize to 32k in > order to increase possible row size, I need to do this (and don't want to > screw anything up) but am unsure about how to go about it.. Is BLKSZ (if > that's even correct) simply a PG variable somewhere? It's near the head of src/include/config.h (or config.h.in if you are doing the edit before running configure). Edit, rebuild the system, away you go. Don't forget you will need to initdb after installing the rebuilt postmaster... > That sounds like what I'm looking for and since it's set to 8k, looks like > what I'm looking for -- so would I be correct in changing this value and > re-compiling my kernel? No no no, do not touch your kernel. ===