Re: !!! Compress individual tables with postgres

I have read this article. I think it deals with the compresion at the
individual data field level. I am trying to find out a way for compressing
individual tables that are generated on daily basis. I dont think so TOAST
will help for compressing the whole single individual table. please suggest
if you know any other alternative.

Thanks and Regards,
Shabala

On 9/30/08, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Shabala Deshpande <de(dot)shabala(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > I have very large databases that are in postgresql (200Gbs+) and
> individual
> > tables that take up as huge space. I know that in mysql one can compress
> > individual tables with isam-compression. I understand that postgresql
> > compresses text automatically, is there anyway to compress my large
> database
> > further?
> > Isn't there any specific method to compress the tables?? or does postgres
> > handle it on its own? cause I have a large nos of daily generated tables
> > with footprint of each of the table to be quite big.. so i need to
> compress
> > the individual tables.. please help.
> > Thanks and Regards,
> >
> > Shabala Deshpande
>
> PostgreSQL might already be compressing your data. See
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/storage-toast.html
>
> - Josh / eggyknap
>