Re: trigger TOASTing quicker?

In article <24281.1147444664@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
 tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane) wrote:

> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> > I beleive you can set it to EXTERNAL, which it will always toast.
>
> I don't think that will help; if the overall row size is below the
> threshold, the code is not going to pick it apart to see if anything
> is saying "toast me anyway!".  And it shouldn't do so IMHO; the overall
> cost in cycles would be catastrophic, because most tables aren't going
> to have such columns.
>
> There was discussion just yesterday of making the TOAST thresholds
> more configurable, but I didn't see anyone stepping up with a
> concrete proposal (much less volunteering to create a patch).
>
>             regards, tom lane


Well, I suppose I could blank pad the column :-)  That would compress
really well, too.  Or is that exceptionally evil?

tia,
arturo