Thanks for the clarification.
In tuptoaster.h, just above the declaration of TOAST_TUPLES_PER_PAGE,
there is a comment which begins: "while these can be modified without
initdb..."
Does this mean that if I reduce the value of TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD and
rebuild, I can use an existing database cluster without having to run
initdb again?
On 4/13/2010 3:02 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
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
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