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The Surprising Impact of Medium-Size Texts on PostgreSQL Performance
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Today, we're going to talk about the surprising impact of medium sized texts on Postgres performance. We take a look at a great blog post by Haki Benita.
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📑 *What we have discussed in this episode of 5mins of Postgres:*
*The Surprising Impact of Medium-Size Texts on PostgreSQL Performance - by Haki Benita*
https://hakibenita.com/sql-medium-text-performance
*Haki Benita on Twitter/X*
*Out-of-Line, On-Disk TOAST Storage - postgresql.org docs*
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-toast.html#STORAGE-TOAST-ONDISK
*5mins of Postgres E3: Postgres performance cliffs with large JSONB values and TOAST*
Translated At: 2025-08-18T13:21:59Z