Re: TOAST behavior in 8.3 and 8.4

Thanks for the clarification.

In tuptoaster.h, just above the declaration of TOAST_TUPLES_PER_PAGE,
there is a comment which begins: "while these can be modified without
initdb..."

Does this mean that if I reduce the value of TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD and
rebuild, I can use an existing database cluster without having to run
initdb again?

On 4/13/2010 3:02 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Lewis Kapell<lkapell(at)setonhome(dot)org> wrote:
>
>> I don't understand what that '256 bytes' refers to. That is a far
>> cry from 2kb. I would be grateful if anyone can fill in the
>> evident gap in my knowledge here.
>
> It doesn't try to compress anything unless the tuple (row instance)
> as a whole is above TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD. In trying to reduce the
> tuple size, it won't consider compressing column values below a
> certain size. That is where the 256 versus 32 bytes comes in.
>
> -Kevin