Re: How does TOAST compare to other databases' mechanisms?

Philip Warner wrote:
> At 20:42 13/10/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> >> At 10:12 9/10/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> Someone should work on adding an
> >>> ALTER command to change it in a more user-friendly fashion.
> >
> >> If I wanted to do this, how long do you think it would take (given that I
> >> have not done anything similar so far)?
> >
> >Hard to say. Do you know anything about yacc grammars?
>
> I added a 'get statistics' statement to plpgsql a while back, but I don't
> think it made it into CVS. So yes, I have at least seen yacc before.

You named it GET DIAGNOSTICS ...

Took a while, but it is in the current tree for a couple of
weeks now.

Jan

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