| From: | Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Chris Hoover <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: Where to find information on the new HOT tables? |
| Date: | 2008-02-06 01:53:52 |
| Message-ID: | 20080206015351.GM1212@decibel.org |
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:57:31PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Le Tuesday 05 February 2008 22:35:11 Tom Lane, vous avez crit:
> >>> The reason there isn't one is it doesn't need one; it's an
> >>> implementation detail not a user-visible feature. ,
>
> > Although it is an implementation detail it is certainly a very
> > user-visible detail. It can and will affect how people design their
> > databases to take advantage of the implementation detail.
>
> We have no user-facing documentation on TOAST, either, which would seem
> to me to be at least as much of a candidate for people to custom-design
> their databases around. In practice I don't think anyone does.
Uh... http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/storage-toast.html
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