Re: TOASTing smaller things

From: "Luke Lonergan" <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Jan Wieck" <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Chris Browne" <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TOASTing smaller things
Date: 2007-04-12 20:35:25
Message-ID: C243E61D.2CF0C%llonergan@greenplum.com
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Hi Bruce,

On 4/12/07 9:24 AM, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> Luke Lonergan wrote:
>> Hi Bruce,
>>
>> How about these:
>>
>> - Allow specification of TOAST size threshold in bytes on a per column basis
>> - Enable storage of columns in separate TOAST tables
>> - Enable use of multi-row compression method(s) for TOAST tables
>
> At this point I would be happy just to set the TOAST threshold to a
> value defined as optimal, rather than as the most minimal use of TOAST
> possible.

I agree that's a good starting point, I guess I was thinking that was
already included in the work that Tom has been doing. If not, we can add a
TODO like this as a precursor to the ones above:

- Allow specification of TOAST size threshold (in bytes) on a per table
basis

- Luke

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