Re: trigger TOASTing quicker?

In article <24281(dot)1147444664(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>,
tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane) wrote:

> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> > I beleive you can set it to EXTERNAL, which it will always toast.
>
> I don't think that will help; if the overall row size is below the
> threshold, the code is not going to pick it apart to see if anything
> is saying "toast me anyway!". And it shouldn't do so IMHO; the overall
> cost in cycles would be catastrophic, because most tables aren't going
> to have such columns.
>
> There was discussion just yesterday of making the TOAST thresholds
> more configurable, but I didn't see anyone stepping up with a
> concrete proposal (much less volunteering to create a patch).
>
> regards, tom lane

Well, I suppose I could blank pad the column :-) That would compress
really well, too. Or is that exceptionally evil?

tia,
arturo