pg_appendonly

The pg_appendonly table contains information about the storage options and other characteristics of append-optimized tables.

columntypereferencesdescription
relidoid The table object identifier (OID) of the compressed table.
blocksizeinteger Block size used for compression of append-optimized tables. Valid values are 8K - 2M. Default is 32K.
safefswritesizeinteger Minimum size for safe write operations to append-optimized tables in a non-mature file system. Commonly set to a multiple of the extent size of the file system; for example, Linux ext3 is 4096 bytes, so a value of 32768 is commonly used.
compresslevelsmallint The compression level, with compression ratio increasing from 1 to 19. When quicklz1 is specified for compresstype, valid values are 1 or 3. With zlib specified, valid values are 1-9. When zstd is specified, valid values are 1-19.
majorversionsmallint The major version number of the pg_appendonly table.
minorversionsmallint The minor version number of the pg_appendonly table.
checksumboolean A checksum value that is stored to compare the state of a block of data at compression time and at scan time to ensure data integrity.
compresstypetext Type of compression used to compress append-optimized tables. Valid values are:

- none (no compression)

- rle_type (run-length encoding compression)

- zlib (gzip compression)

- zstd (Zstandard compression)

- quicklz1
columnstoreboolean 1 for column-oriented storage, 0 for row-oriented storage.
segrelidoid Table on-disk segment file id.
segidxidoid Index on-disk segment file id.
blkdirrelidoid Block used for on-disk column-oriented table file.
blkdiridxidoid Block used for on-disk column-oriented index file.
visimaprelidoid Visibility map for the table.
visimapidxidoid B-tree index on the visibility map.

Note

1QuickLZ compression is available only in the commercial release of Tanzu Greenplum.

Parent topic: System Catalogs Definitions