Re: How to force "re-TOAST" after changing STORAGE or COMPRESSION?

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: rob stone <floriparob(at)tpg(dot)com(dot)au>, Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to force "re-TOAST" after changing STORAGE or COMPRESSION?
Date: 2023-10-03 04:45:22
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 06:31:27AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-10-03 at 12:33 +1100, rob stone wrote:
>> Would running CLUSTER on the table use the new parameters for the re-
>> write?
>
> No, as far as I know.

Note that under the hoods VACUUM FULL and CLUSTER use the same code
paths when doing their stuff.

> You'd need something like
>
> -- rewrite all tuples
> UPDATE tab SET id = id;
> -- get rid of the bloat
> VACUUM (FULL) tab;

I'm afraid so, and get ready for a burst of WAL that depends on the
size of your relation if you are too aggressive with the updates. You
could do that in periodic steps, as well.
--
Michael

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