On Thursday, April 14, 2011 9:37:10 pm Craig Ringer wrote: > On 15/04/2011 8:07 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > "EXTENDED allows both compression and out-of-line storage. This is the > > default for most TOAST-able data types. Compression will be attempted > > first, then out-of- > > > > line storage if the row is still too big. " > > Good point. I was unclear; thanks for pointing it out. > > What I was trying to say is that there's no whole-row compression, ie > compression of the whole tuple except for minimal headers. A value in a > field may be compressed, but you can't (say) compress a 100-column row > of integers in Pg, because the individual fields don't support compression.
Got it now, thanks. -- Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
