Re: RFC/WIP: adding new configuration options to TOAST - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim Nasby
Subject Re: RFC/WIP: adding new configuration options to TOAST
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Msg-id 56397376.2010408@BlueTreble.com
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In response to Re: RFC/WIP: adding new configuration options to TOAST  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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On 11/3/15 8:34 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> I currently have a table with one column which has a median width of
> 500 bytes, a 90th percentile of 650 bytes, and makes up 75% of the
> table's size, and the column is rarely used, while the table itself is
> frequently seq scanned.  I'd very much like to drive that column out
> of main and into toast. I think target_tuple_size would let me do
> that.

+1 on having a way to induce that behavior, as I've faced the same thing 
in the past.
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