TOAST
Nikolay and Michael discuss TOAST (The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique) — what it is, how it works, and some general things to be aware of.
Here are links to a few things we mentioned:
Here are links to a few things we mentioned:
- TOAST docs
- TOAST wiki
- Hussein Nasser on rows per page (Twitter)
- Toasting in action (dbi services blog)
- Interview with Peter Zaitsev (Postgres TV)
- Building columnar compression in a row-oriented database (Timescale blog post)
- The Surprising Impact of Medium-Size Texts on PostgreSQL Performance (blog post by Haki Benita)
- PostgreSQL at Scale: Saving Space Basically for Free (blog post by Braintree on column Tetris)
- postgres_dba alignment padding query
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