Re: update on TOAST status'

At 14:02 11/07/00 +0200, Jan Wieck wrote:
> AFAICS, we need to detoast values for index inserts allways
> and have another toaster inside the index access methods at
> some day.

We might not need it...at least not in the furst pass.

> In the meantime we should decide a safe maximum
> index tuple size and emit an explanative error message on the
> attempt to insert oversized index entries instead of possibly
> corrupting the index.

Can I suggest that we also put out a warning when defining an index using a
field with a (potentially) unlimited size? Indexing a text field will
mostly be a bizarre thing to do, but, eg, indexing the first 255 chars of a
text field (via substr) might not be.

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