Re: extensible external toast tuple support & snappy prototype - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: extensible external toast tuple support & snappy prototype
Date
Msg-id 23829.1370620005@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: extensible external toast tuple support & snappy prototype  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: extensible external toast tuple support & snappy prototype  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> I mean, we don't necessarily need to make it configurable if we just add
> one canonical new "better" compression format. I am not sure that's
> sufficient since I can see usecases for 'very fast but not too well
> compressed' and 'very well compressed but slow', but I am personally not
> really interested in the second case, so ...

IME, once we've changed it once, the odds that we'll want to change it
again go up drastically.  I think if we're going to make a change here
we should leave room for future revisions.
        regards, tom lane



pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Andres Freund
Date:
Subject: Re: extensible external toast tuple support & snappy prototype
Next
From: Kevin Grittner
Date:
Subject: Re: system catalog pg_rewrite column ev_attr document description problem