hey, In the spreadsheet world, there is this concept of "shared strings," a simple way of compressing spreadsheets when the data is duplicated in many cells. In my database, I have a table with >200 million rows and >300 columns (all the households in the United States). For clarity of development and debugging, I have not made any effort to normalize its contents, so millions of rows have, for example, "SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE / TOWNHOUSE" (yes, that whole string!) instead of some code representing it. Theoretically / blue sky, could there be a table or column type that transparently handles "shared strings" like this, reducing size on disk at the cost of lookup overhead for all queries? (I guess maybe it's like TOAST, but content-hashed and de-duped and not only for large objects?) Thanks, Seamus -- Seamus Abshere, SCEA https://www.faraday.io https://github.com/seamusabshere https://linkedin.com/in/seamusabshere -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
