Re: [PATCH] Compression dictionaries for JSONB

From: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Nikita Malakhov <hukutoc(at)gmail(dot)com>, Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Jacob Champion <jchampion(at)timescale(dot)com>, Pavel Borisov <pashkin(dot)elfe(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compression dictionaries for JSONB
Date: 2023-04-26 13:00:08
Message-ID: CAJ7c6TM7+sTvwREeL74Y5U91+5ymNobRbOmnDRfdTonq9trZyQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hi Nikita,

> The External TOAST pointer is very limited to the amount of service data
> it could keep, that's why we introduced the Custom TOAST pointers in the
> Pluggable TOAST. But keep in mind that changing the TOAST pointer
> structure requires a lot of quite heavy modifications in the core - along with
> some obvious places like insert/update/delete datum there is very serious
> issue with logical replication.
> The Pluggable TOAST was rejected, but we have a lot of improvements
> based on changing the TOAST pointer structure.

Now I see what you meant [1]. I agree that we should focus on
refactoring TOAST pointers first. So I suggest we continue discussing
this in a corresponding thread and return to this one later.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAJ7c6TPSvR2rKpoVX5TSXo_kMxXF%2B-SxLtrpPaMf907tX%3DnVCw%40mail.gmail.com

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

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