Re: Significantly larger toast tables on 8.4?

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 18:30, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Alex Hunsaker" <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:44, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> An easy way to prove or disprove the point would be to go into
>>> src/backend/utils/adt/pg_lzcompress.c, and change the second entry
>>> in strategy_default_data from "1024 * 1024" to "INT_MAX",
>
>> And the toast file size is *drum roll* 167M.
>
> Hmmm ... so that's a lot closer to the original 145M, but it still
> seems like there's something else going on. It looks like the other
> thing we changed that might result in not compressing things was to
> increase the third entry (minimum compression rate) from 20% to 25%.
> Could you try it with that value also changed back?

With it back to 20% its now back to 145M.