Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes: > Heikki Linnakangas wrote: >> Alvaro Herrera wrote: >>> Optionally compressing the values would be nice ... >> >> The whole Datum will be toasted/compressed if it gets large enough. Is >> that not enough?
> It doesn't always gets large enough, and there's no way to control that. Maybe not, but putting compression into a datatype is NOT NOT NOT the answer. You only want one layer of compression in a system, and that means if you want more control you need to speak to the TOAST code. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers