Lewis Kapell <lkapell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't understand what that '256 bytes' refers to. That is a far > cry from 2kb. I would be grateful if anyone can fill in the > evident gap in my knowledge here. It doesn't try to compress anything unless the tuple (row instance) as a whole is above TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD. In trying to reduce the tuple size, it won't consider compressing column values below a certain size. That is where the 256 versus 32 bytes comes in. -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin