> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Seamus Abshere wrote
> > Theoretically / blue sky, could there be a table or column type that
> > transparently handles "shared strings" like this, reducing size on disk
> > at the cost of lookup overhead for all queries?
> > (I guess maybe it's like TOAST, but content-hashed and de-duped and not
> > only for large objects?)
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017, at 01:12 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> Row-independence is baked into PostgreSQL pretty deeply...
Could you say more about that?
What about the comparison to TOAST, which stores values off-table?
Thanks!
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