Re: missing toast table for pg_policy

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: John Naylor <jcnaylor(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: missing toast table for pg_policy
Date: 2018-07-10 01:19:35
Message-ID: 11465c0c-a73a-cf0c-35ba-d8aa487250c0@joeconway.com
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On 07/09/2018 09:16 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 02:45:26PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On 15.06.18 21:15, Joe Conway wrote:
>>> Not surprising -- thanks for the update.
>>>
>>>> It occurred to be that we could go further and create most toast
>>>> tables automatically by taking advantage of the fact that the toast
>>>> creation function is a no-op if there are no varlena attributes. The
>>>> second patch (applies on top of the first) demonstrates a setup where
>>>> only shared and bootstrap catalogs need to have toast declarations
>>>> specified manually with fixed OIDs. It's possible this way is more
>>>> fragile, though.
>>>
>>> Hmmm, I'll have a look.
>>
>> Are you going to provide a new patch soon? This commit fest item is
>> otherwise not moving forward.
>
> I am a fan of this patch, so I'd like to help make things move on. Joe,
> if you cannot provide a patch, do you mind if I begin to hack my way
> around?

If you can wait for the next commitfest (the original one I put the
patch into, i.e. September) I am committed to making it happen. But if
you are anxious to getting this into the current commitfest, go for it.
I am in the middle of a move from California to Florida and don't think
I will realistically have time this month.

Joe

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