Re: extensible external toast tuple support & snappy prototype - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: extensible external toast tuple support & snappy prototype
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Msg-id 24229.1370621243@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: extensible external toast tuple support & snappy prototype  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2013-06-07 11:46:45 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> IME, once we've changed it once, the odds that we'll want to change it
>> again go up drastically.  I think if we're going to make a change here
>> we should leave room for future revisions.

> The above bit was just about how much control we give the user over the
> compression algorithm used for compressing new data. If we just add one
> method atm which we think is just about always better than pglz there's
> not much need to provide the tunables already.

Ah, ok, I thought you were talking about storage-format decisions not
about whether to expose a tunable setting.
        regards, tom lane



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