Re: TOASTing smaller things - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Hannu Krosing
Subject Re: TOASTing smaller things
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Msg-id 1174602066.3826.10.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: TOASTing smaller things  ("Luke Lonergan" <llonergan@greenplum.com>)
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Ühel kenal päeval, N, 2007-03-22 kell 10:19, kirjutas Luke Lonergan:
> Andreas,
> 
> On 3/22/07 9:40 AM, "Andreas Pflug" <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> wrote:
> 
> > Wouldn't it be enough to enable having the toast table on a different
> > table space?
> 
> Yes, but the ultimate goal would allow the allocation of a storage mechanism
> that is unique to each column.  The most frequently used mechanism for our
> customers would likely be to have each column associated with it's own
> internal relation (like a separate TOAST table), which puts each column into
> it's own dense page storage.

Maybe monetdb ( http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ ) can be of some inspiration ?

btw, it may be a good idea to have a verion of bizgresMPP which has
monetdb as partition db, if monetdb is as efficient as they tell it is .

> 
> Beside the advantages of separating out keys columns from data columns,
> compression and encryption approaches that use column packed data are much
> more effective.
> 
> As Tom points out there are complications WRT update, access, etc that need
> to be worked out to support this, but it's an important capability to have
> IMO.
> 
> - Luke       
> 
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