Edson Richter <edsonrich...@hotmail.com> writes: > I would like to know if there is any plan to implement compressed fields > (just a "flag" in the field definition, like "not null") at database > side (these fields are and will never be indexed neither used for search).
Any field value over a couple kilobytes is compressed automatically; this has been true for more than a dozen years. You can turn that off if you want, but it's done by default. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/storage-toast.html regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general