Re: jsonb format is pessimal for toast compression

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Larry White <ljw1001(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: jsonb format is pessimal for toast compression
Date: 2014-08-14 18:13:44
Message-ID: 20140814181344.GC7865@momjian.us
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 01:57:14PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Maybe this is telling us it's not worth changing the representation,
> and we should just go do something about the first_success_by threshold
> and be done. I'm hesitant to draw such conclusions on the basis of a
> single use-case though, especially one that doesn't really have that
> much use for compression in the first place. Do we have other JSON
> corpuses to look at?

Yes, that is what I was expecting --- once the whitespace and syntax
sugar is gone in JSONB, I was unclear how much compression would help.

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