From: | Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> |
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To: | Dawid Kuroczko <qnex42(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: RFD: ALTER COLUMN .. SET STORAGE COMPRESSED; |
Date: | 2008-06-10 13:11:50 |
Message-ID: | 484E7D96.9050301@sun.com |
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Dawid Kuroczko napsal(a):
> Hello!
>
> Currently the TOASTing code does its magic when whole tuple is
> larger than TOAST_TUPLE_TARGET which happens to be around 2KB.
>
> There are times though when one is willing to trade using (fast) CPU to
> reduce amount of (slow) I/O. A data warehousing types of workload
> most notably. Rarely used large columns which are likely to compress
> well but are not large enough to trigger inline compression.
>
> As we already have four types of ALTER COLUMN .. SET STORAGE
> { PLAIN | EXTERNAL | EXTENDED | MAIN } I would like to add
> "COMPRESSED" which would force column compression (if column is
> smaller than some minimun, I guess somwehwere between 16 and 32 bytes).
I think TOAST_TUPLE_TRESHOLD and TOAST_TUPLE_TARGEST should help you. Look int
tuptoaster.h
Zdenek
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