Re: jsonb format is pessimal for toast compression

On 09/18/2014 07:53 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 09/16/2014 08:45 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> We're somewhat comparing apples and oranges here, in that I pushed my
>> approach to something that I think is of committable quality (and which,
>> not incidentally, fixes some existing bugs that we'd need to fix in any
>> case); while Heikki's patch was just proof-of-concept.  It would be worth
>> pushing Heikki's patch to committable quality so that we had a more
>> complete understanding of just what the complexity difference really is.
>
> Is anyone actually working on this?
>
> If not, I'm voting for the all-lengths patch so that we can get 9.4 out
> the door.

I'll try to write a more polished patch tomorrow. We'll then see what it 
looks like, and can decide if we want it.

- Heikki