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by da_chicken 688 days ago
8k is a very common page size, but 4k isn't unheard of. Oracle's default is 4k.

The issue is that page size caps row size (for on-row storage). Also, if you have a smart clustering index, larger pages can be more efficient use of index addressing. So it's a trade-off.

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Oracle defaults to 8k as well:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/1...

> Default value 8192