Re: RFC/WIP: adding new configuration options to TOAST

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RFC/WIP: adding new configuration options to TOAST
Date: 2015-11-04 02:54:46
Message-ID: 56397376.2010408@BlueTreble.com
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On 11/3/15 8:34 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> I currently have a table with one column which has a median width of
> 500 bytes, a 90th percentile of 650 bytes, and makes up 75% of the
> table's size, and the column is rarely used, while the table itself is
> frequently seq scanned. I'd very much like to drive that column out
> of main and into toast. I think target_tuple_size would let me do
> that.

+1 on having a way to induce that behavior, as I've faced the same thing
in the past.
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Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX
Experts in Analytics, Data Architecture and PostgreSQL
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