Re: Significantly larger toast tables on 8.4?

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>(1) Compress everything within reason by default, causing slower retrieval, do 
>not offer substr optimization. [<= 8.3]

>(2) Compress only up to 1 MB, causing faster retrieval, supporting substr 
>optimization. [8.4devel]

>I am personally completely puzzled by option number 2.  Is there even a single 
>use case for that?

I can't imagine one, and (in this thread at least) noone has demonstrated
such; Tom hinted at one, but he didn't elaborate.
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