| 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 04:54:06 |
| Message-ID: | 20080206045406.GP1212@decibel.org |
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:11:31PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:57:31PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> 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
>
> That's developer documentation, buried in the "internals" volume.
Which any serious user will find and read.
One of the things that drew me to Postgres years ago was that I could
actually read about how it works in a clear, concise manner.
--
Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828
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