On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:12:09PM -0500, Decibel! wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:06:50PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: > > "Decibel!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 04:07:01PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: > > >> Fwiw, do we really not want to compress anything smaller than 256 bytes > > >> (everyone in Postgres uses the default strategy, not the always > > >> strategy). > > > > > > Is there actually a way to specify always compressing? I'm not seeing it > > > on http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/storage-toast.html > > > > In the code there's an "always" strategy, but nothing in Postgres uses it so > > there's no way to set it using ALTER TABLE ... SET STORAGE. > > > > That might be an interesting approach though. We could add another SET > > STORAGE > > value "COMPRESSIBLE" which says to use the always strategy. The neat thing > > about this is we could set bpchar to use this storage type by default. > > Yeah, we should have that. I'll add it to my TODO...
On second thought... how much work would it be to expose the first 3 (or even all) of the elements in PGLZ_Strategy to SET STORAGE? It's certainly possible that there are workloads out there that will never be optimal with one of our pre-defined strategies... -- Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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