Re: About TOAST and indices

From: JanWieck(at)t-online(dot)de (Jan Wieck)
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: About TOAST and indices
Date: 2000-07-20 16:41:16
Message-ID: 200007201641.SAA05485@hot.jw.home
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Tom Lane wrote:
> JanWieck(at)t-online(dot)de (Jan Wieck) writes:
> > So at the time beeing, I think index tuples should not
> > contain any external toast references.
>
> Seems like a good stopgap solution. You'll still allow them to be
> compressed in-line, though, right?

Of course. There's no problem with in-line compressed items.
It's only these external references that cause trouble after
a vacuum.

Jan

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