From:
"Alex Hunsaker" <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
To:
"Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc:
"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Stephen R(dot) van den Berg" <srb(at)cuci(dot)nl>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject:
Re: Significantly larger toast tables on 8.4?
Date:
2009-01-02 19:42:56
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2009-01-02 04:30:59 from "Alex Hunsaker" <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2009-01-02 04:49:55 from "Alex Hunsaker" <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2009-01-02 05:44:49 from "Alex Hunsaker" <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2009-01-02 06:09:35 from "Alex Hunsaker" <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2009-01-02 14:57:46 from "Stephen R(dot) van den Berg" <srb(at)cuci(dot)nl>
2009-01-02 16:01:56 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:44, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Here, we have a case where the space savings are potentially much
> larger, and the only argument against it is that someone might be
> disappointed in the performance of substring operations, if they
> happen to do any. What if they know that they don't want to do any
> and want to get compression? Even if the benefit is only 1.5X on
> their data rather than 10X, that seems like a pretty sane and useful
> thing to want to do. It's easy to shut off compression if you don't
> want it; if the system makes an arbitrary decision to disable it, how
> do you get it back?
I think we could just add another toast storage type: alter table
alter column set storage compress; ? It seems overkill to expose
PGLZ_Strategy knobs per column...
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