Re: Significantly larger toast tables on 8.4?

From: "Alex Hunsaker" <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Stephen R(dot) van den Berg" <srb(at)cuci(dot)nl>, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Significantly larger toast tables on 8.4?
Date: 2009-01-03 06:32:00
Message-ID: 34d269d40901022232j2d5f8abfo46ba799fe88ac622@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 18:46, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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> It would be fairly easy, I think, to add some reloption fields that
> would let these parameters be controlled on a per-table level.

+1

Or something easier that just lets you use PGLZ_Strategy strategy_always_data.

ALTER TABLE SET STORAGE ALWAYS_COMPRESS;

Or is that way to stop gap?

> Per-column would be much more painful; do we really need that?

Obviously not for 8.4 this late in the game.

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