Nikolay and Michael discuss TOAST (The Oversized-Attribute Storage Technique) — what it is, how it works, and some general things to be aware of. Here are links to a few things we mentioned: TOAST docsTOAST wikiHussein Nasser on rows per page (Twitter)Toasting in action (dbi services blog)Interview with Peter Zaitsev (Postgres TV)Building columnar compression in a row-oriented database (Timescale blog post)The Surprising Impact of Medium-Size Texts on PostgreSQL Performance (blog post by Haki Benita)PostgreSQL at Scale: Saving Space Basically for Free (blog post by Braintree on column Tetris)postgres_dba alignment padding query ------------------------What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know by tweeting us on @samokhvalov / @michristofides / @PostgresFM, or by commenting on our Google doc.If you would like to share this episode, here's a good link (and thank you!)Postgres FM is brought to you by:Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.aiMichael Christofides, founder of pgMustardWith special thanks to:Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork 

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