On Nov 19, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Decibel! <decibel@decibel.org> writes:
>> FWIW, 20k rows isn't all that big, so I'm assuming that the
>> descriptions make the table very wide. Unless those descriptions are
>> what's being updated frequently, I suggest you put those in a
>> separate table (vertical partitioning). That will make the main table
>> much easier to vacuum, as well as reducing the impact of the high
>> churn rate.
>
> Uh, you do realize that the TOAST mechanism does that pretty much
> automatically?
Only if the row exceeds 2k, which for a lot of applications is huge.
This is exactly why I wish toast limits were configurable on a per-
table basis (I know there were changes here for 8.3, but IIRC it was
only for toast chunk size).
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