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Re: Why index occupy less amount of space than the table with same structure.

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On 29 Mar 2010, at 6:03, Tadipathri Raghu wrote:

> Hi Alban,
>  
> Thank you for the update.
>  
> For one thing: The table holds information regarding to which transactions each row is visible (the xid) whereas the index does not.
>  
> What would be the each value of the xid, like 8 bytes,or 32 bytes..which causing the table to hold what index is not and the space occupied is exactly half of the table in indexes. Can you explain a bit on this.

I'm pretty sure the documentation explains this better than I can.

Alban Hertroys

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