Re: Bad plan on a view

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:43:53PM +0100, PFC wrote:
>
> >Aren't you going to a lot of work to reinvent something that TOAST
> >already does for you? (At least, in the cases where the text fields
> >are wide enough that it really matters.)
>
> I know. But I have several text fields in the 20 to 200 characters,
> which is too small for toast, but large enough to make up about 90% of the
> table size, which makes it problematic RAM-wise, especially since it's
> gonna grow. Now, if I had 1 big text field, it would be TOASTed and I
> would be happy ;)

Cases like this are why I really wish we had the ability to specify
something other than BLKSZ/4 as when to trigger TOAST. In many cases the
text field is seldom refered to, so getting it out of the main heap is a
big win.
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