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Re:How PostgreSQL stores rows by uhoh-itsmaciek on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @10:14PM (#30282014)
This post glosses over it, but larger fields are stored via the TOAST mechanism [1], which does support compression.

[1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-toast.html

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