Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Optionally compressing the values would be nice ...
>>
>> The whole Datum will be toasted/compressed if it gets large enough. Is
>> that not enough?
> It doesn't always gets large enough, and there's no way to control that.
Maybe not, but putting compression into a datatype is NOT NOT NOT the
answer. You only want one layer of compression in a system, and that
means if you want more control you need to speak to the TOAST code.
regards, tom lane