BUG #11109: No Toast compression on JSON, JSONB columns

The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference:      11109
Logged by:          Larry White
Email address:      ljw1001@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 9.4beta2
Operating system:   OSX Mavericks
Description:

if PG can, after compression, put an entire JSON or JSONB 'document' into
one row/page in the toast table it does. However, if the document is too big
to fit in one row after compression, it does no compression at all.

I created a test Json file (in part) with this loop:

        for (int j = 0; j < 110; j++) {
            mediumPayload.getJunk().add("124245etweetwet345gwtretwt43 qwrqwq
qwre qw rsdflkas");
            mediumPayload.getJunk().add("q4535 wqrqwrqwrqw2 wrqwrqwrq32232w
kswe sfasrs sdfsd");
        }

if the loop runs 110 times as shown, it compresses.
if the loop runs 111 times, it does not:

With 110 iterations:
Extended      8192 bytes  (one page)
External           66 MB

With 111 iterations:
Extended      69 MB
External        69 MB

This is not the behavior observed with Text compression in Toast.  For very
large files Text compression works correctly.  I got these results running
similar tests on larger json files:

Column Type  - Storage       - TOAST table size
JSONB           - EXTERNAL -  2448 MB
JSONB           - EXTENDED - 2448 MB
JSON             - EXTENDED - 2504 MB
TEXT             - EXTERNAL  - 2409 MB
TEXT             - EXTENDED -      40 MB

To Recreate:
Take a json file that is too large to compress into a single page. insert it
into a table and check the size of the Toast table. Repeat with a file that
is small enough to fit into a single page when compressed (but bigger than
the Toast minimum size).  The first file will have no compression and the
second file will compress correctly.