Re: Very large tables

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: William Temperley <willtemperley(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Very large tables
Date: 2008-11-28 16:57:36
Message-ID: 20081128165736.GE8993@alvh.no-ip.org
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William Temperley escribió:

> Really I'm worried about reducing storage space and network overhead
> - therefore a nicely compressed chunk of binary would be perfect for
> the 500 values - wouldn't it?

An array that large would likely be compressed by Postgres internally
for storage; see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/storage-toast.html

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