> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Seamus Abshere wrote > > 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?) On Fri, Oct 13, 2017, at 01:12 PM, David G. Johnston wrote: > Row-independence is baked into PostgreSQL pretty deeply... Could you say more about that? What about the comparison to TOAST, which stores values off-table? Thanks! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
