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How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a pa...
I guess it's a tradeoff. Ideally you'd want a small enough page size such that pages are unlikely to be split across multiple LBAs, but the performance wouldn't be good. Standard filesystems don't really guarantee LBA alignment anyway.
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