The Surprising Impact of Medium-Size Texts on PostgreSQL Performance

Author: pganalyze
Published At: 2023-11-02T00:00:00
Length: 06:05

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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*

https://twitter.com/be_haki

*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*

https://pganalyze.com/blog/5mins-postgres-jsonb-toast

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