Re: hstore improvements? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: hstore improvements?
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Msg-id 4595.1236974808@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: hstore improvements?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Optionally compressing the values would be nice ...
>> 
>> The whole Datum will be toasted/compressed if it gets large enough. Is  
>> that not enough?

> It doesn't always gets large enough, and there's no way to control that.

Maybe not, but putting compression into a datatype is NOT NOT NOT the
answer.  You only want one layer of compression in a system, and that
means if you want more control you need to speak to the TOAST code.
        regards, tom lane


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