Re: [PATCH][PROPOSAL] Refuse setting toast.* reloptions when TOAST table does not exist

From: Nikolay Shaplov <dhyan(at)nataraj(dot)su>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][PROPOSAL] Refuse setting toast.* reloptions when TOAST table does not exist
Date: 2018-01-25 17:27:15
Message-ID: 1554110.70SQF4eQMf@x200m
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В письме от 25 января 2018 11:29:34 пользователь Tom Lane написал:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Well, maybe the right answer is to address that. It's clear to me
> >> why that would happen if we store these things as reloptions on the
> >> toast table, but can't they be stored on the parent table?
> >
> > Actually, Nikolay provided a possible solution: if you execute ALTER
> > TABLE SET (toast.foobar = xyz), and a toast table doesn't exist, create
> > one at that point.
>
> That adds a lot of overhead if you never actually need the toast table.
I think this overhead case is not that terrible if it is properly warned ;-)

> Still, maybe it's an appropriate amount of effort compared to the size
> of the use-case for this.
If you came to some final conclustion, please close the commiffest item with
"Return with feedback" resolution, and I write another patch...

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