Re: Increased storage size of jsonb in pg15

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On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 11:23 AM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
wrote:

> On 12/28/23 09:13, Sean Flaherty wrote:
> > Follow-up:
> > Working with AWS, we found that starting in RDS Postgres 15, the
> > default_toast_compression parameter is set to use lz4 compression
> > instead of pglz. This resulted in the increased json storage size we
> > were seeing.
> >
> > I have been able to reproduce the increased storage size on RDS Postgres
> > and using my local docker instance of postgres 15.5 by changing the
> > local default_toast_compression value in postgresql.conf.
> >
> > I have attached the test script we use to create a table, insert some
> > test records and a query to test the JSON data size on disk.
>
> I can confirm I see the same results using Postgres 16 installed from
> the PGDG repo on Ubuntu 22.04. That the lz4 data size is greater then
> the pglz data size.
>
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Sean
> >
>
>
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> Adrian Klaver
> adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
>
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