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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: R: R: space taken by a row & compressed data
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In response to R: R: space taken by a row & compressed data  ("Leonardo Francalanci" <lfrancalanci@simtel.ie>)
Responses Re: R: R: space taken by a row & compressed data  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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"Leonardo Francalanci" <lfrancalanci@simtel.ie> writes:
> Could you point me to some docs on this TOAST-mechanism?
> For instance: what kind of method is used to compress data?

When in doubt, read the code ;-)
src/backend/utils/adt/pg_lzcompress.c
src/include/utils/pg_lzcompress.h

            regards, tom lane

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