Re: Significantly larger toast tables on 8.4?

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 21:30, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> My hunch is its related to
> http://git.postgresql.org/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=3b6942b3f2fe733572c05a71cb2d12e5ece60cd
> or for the CVS inclined
> http::/archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-03/msg00121.php
>
> But if anything that looks like it should help reduce size...

Looking at the patch we dont compress things > 1M anymore so I thought
maybe I was hitting that. But no luck there are only 39 rows where
the row size > 1M... With those 39 being about 22M each. Unless I
calculated something wrong. Oh and CLUSTER and VACUUM dont seem to
help.

select count(1) from dies;
count
-------
52010

select count(1) from
( select
coalesce(pg_column_size(action), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(die_id), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(cparam), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(date_created), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(db_profile), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(debug), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(defunct), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(env), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(login), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(msg), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(open_user_id), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(page_load_id), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(session_id), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(state), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(state_action), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(user_id), 0) +
coalesce(pg_column_size(whoops), 0) as row_size
from dies ) as foo where foo.row_size > 1024*1024;
count
-------
39

BTW is there a "cooler" way to do this?