Re: Storage for multiple variable-length attributes in a single row

Many thanks for your prompt reply David. Allow me then to restate the
questions, hoping that this better fits this mailing list.

MobilityDB is a time-series extension to PostgreSQL/PostGIS in which
time-varying attributes (e.g., gear, GPS location of a car) are
semantically grouped into "units" (e.g., a trip of a car) and are stored as
temporal functions, e.g., a set of couples (integer, timestamptz) for gear
(a temporal integer) or a set of triples (lon, lat, timestamptz) for the
GPS location (a temporal point). All temporal types are stored using
extended format, e.g.,
CREATE TYPE tint (
internallength = variable,
[...]
storage = extended,
alignment = double,
[...]
);
When ingesting mobility (IoT) data into MobilityDB we receive very wide (2K
attributes) of high frequency (every tenth of a second) from flat format
(e.g. CSV) and we need to store it in PostgreSQL tables using MobilityDB
temporal types. In the above scenario, the values of these temporal types
can be very wide (on average 30K timestamped couples/triples per trip).

As suggested by David, this goes beyond the "traditional" usage of
PostgreSQL. Therefore my questions are
* What is the suggested strategy to splitting these 2K attributes into
vertically partitioned tables where the tables are linked by the primary
key (e.g. trip number in the example above). Are there any limitations/best
practices in the number/size of TOASTED attributes that a table should
contain.
* In each partitioned table containing N TOASTED attributes, given the
above requirements, are there any limitations/best practices in storing
them using extended storage or an alternative one such as external.

Many thanks for your insight

Esteban