Re: extensible external toast tuple support & snappy prototype

Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2013-06-07 11:46:45 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> IME, once we've changed it once, the odds that we'll want to change it
>> again go up drastically. I think if we're going to make a change here
>> we should leave room for future revisions.

> The above bit was just about how much control we give the user over the
> compression algorithm used for compressing new data. If we just add one
> method atm which we think is just about always better than pglz there's
> not much need to provide the tunables already.

Ah, ok, I thought you were talking about storage-format decisions not
about whether to expose a tunable setting.

regards, tom lane