"Dave Held" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I notice that by default, postgres sets numeric fields to > storage MAIN. What exactly does that mean?
See http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/storage-toast.html There isn't any amazingly strong reason why numeric defaults to MAIN rather than EXTENDED, which is the default for every other toastable datatype --- except that I thought it'd be a good idea to have at least one type that did so, just to exercise that code path in the tuple toaster. And numeric shouldn't ordinarily be large enough to need out-of-line storage anyway. It's unlikely even to need compression, really, but as long as it's a varlena type the overhead to support toasting is nearly nil. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
