Re: Modifying TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD and TOAST_TUPLE_TARGET?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: "Greg Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Shadar" <shauldar(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Modifying TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD and TOAST_TUPLE_TARGET?
Date: 2009-06-11 15:05:38
Message-ID: 14058.1244732738@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> You could use "ALTER COLUMN SET STORAGE PLAIN" to disable toasting on
>> that column entirely. This will disable compression as well though.

> Why not use "ALTER COLUMN SET STORAGE MAIN", to allow compression but
> avoid external storage?

That only discourages pushing a particular column out; it will still
do so if the row exceeds TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD after compression.

I kinda doubt the OP wants it to fail outright for rows over 8K,
so altering TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD seems like the right answer.
Too bad we don't have that set up as a reloption...

regards, tom lane

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