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		<title>PostgreSQL: What is TOAST (The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique)</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Like SQL Server, PostgreSQL data page size is also 8KB. This post is very similar to a few of the SQL Server published articles. SQL Server: The Internal Structure of the Data Page SQL Server: What happened, when Row Overflow and Data Exceeding 8KB? PostgreSQL uses 8kb fixed size data page to store tuples of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>This post is very similar to a few of the SQL Server published articles.</p>
<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="rGrP0nx5zq"><p><a href="https://www.dbrnd.com/2016/04/sql-server-the-internal-structure-of-the-data-page/">SQL Server: The Internal Structure of the Data Page</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p>PostgreSQL uses 8kb fixed size data page to store tuples of Table.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>It does not allow tuples to span in multiple pages because not possible to store large field value directly into the 8kb page.<br />
This is one type of limitation of PostgreSQL. </p></blockquote>
<p><strong>What is TOAST (The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique)?</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>The TOAST is one type of Technique to store and manage oversized or overflow data pages.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>This is a background process of PostgreSQL, and It also compresses the value and broken into multiple physical pages.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>If row size is exceeding in the main table, It creates new a TOAST table to manage and store oversized rows. </p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>The mechanism is accomplished by splitting up the large column entry into 2KB bytes and storing them as chunks in the TOAST tables.<br />
It then stores the length and a pointer to the TOAST entry back where the column stored. </p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Because of how the pointer system implemented, most TOAST table column types limited to a max size of 1GB.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>The advantage of TOAST table is, whenever data require fetching from TOAST table, only It needs to refer TOAST table otherwise, It does not call unnecessary. </p></blockquote>
<p><strong>How to find whether a TOAST table is associated with your main tables?</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>You can easily select reltoastrelid from pg_class. Like any other table ObjectID is also assigned to TOAST Table.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>You can execute below script:</strong></p>
<pre class="crayon-plain-tag">SELECT relname,reltoastrelid 
FROM pg_class 
WHERE relname='Table_Name';</pre> </p>
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