[postgis-devel] WKTRaster: RFC1: serialized form

[strk]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 09:17:49AM -0500, Pierre Racine wrote:
> >Also added example total sizes of single band on-disk rasters.
> >A 64x64 16bit band won't fit in a default potgresql page size,
> >an 8bit band of that dimension would.
> 
> Nice work. I always wondered what were the implications of working with
> data bigger than the page size.

Data that fits in a page size won't need to be compressed
or stored in a separate table (the TOAST table), so it more
quickly gets loaded into memory.

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