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We consider constructing capacity-achieving linear codes with minimum message size for private information retrieval (PIR) from $N$ non-colluding databases, where each message is coded using maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, such that it can be recovered from accessing the contents of any $T$ databases. It is shown that the minimum message size (sometimes also referred to as the sub-packetization factor) is significantly, in fact exponentially, lower than previously believed. More precisely, when $K>T/textbf{gcd}(N,T)$ where $K$ is the total number of messages in the system and $textbf{gcd}(cdot,cdot)$ means the greatest common divisor, we establish, by providing both novel code constructions and a matching converse, the minimum message size as $textbf{lcm}(N-T,T)$, where $textbf{lcm}(cdot,cdot)$ means the least common multiple. On the other hand, when $K$ is small, we show that it is in fact possible to design codes with a message size even smaller than $textbf{lcm}(N-T,T)$.
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