Stef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I saw that the default storage type for text columns is > "EXTENDED" which, according to the documentation, uses up extra > space to make possible substring functioning faster.
You misread it. EXTENDED does compression by default on long strings.
EXTERNAL is the one that suppresses compression.
regards, tom lane
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