Re: Significantly larger toast tables on 8.4?

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl> writes:
>> - I currently have difficulty imagining applications that actually do
>>   lots of substring extractions from large compressible fields.
>
> The code that's in there to make this happen was written by people who
> needed the feature.  They're going to be upset with you if you propose
> disabling it.

Why didn't they just turn off compression for the relevant columns?

...Robert