Re: TOAST usage setting

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TOAST usage setting
Date: 2007-06-05 01:28:22
Message-ID: 2544.1181006902@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jim C. Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:50:12PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> The big question is do we want to drop the target tuple size down to
>> 512, and increase the chunk size to 8k for 8.3?

> If we do that people could see their disk space usage increase by up to
> 16x: currently 513 bytes fits in heap and takes (roughly) 513 bytes; if
> we make that change it would then get toasted and take 8K.

That argument is completely bogus --- having a toast chunk size of 8K
does not mean that smaller rows occupy 8K.

regards, tom lane

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