Re: MAIN, Uncompressed?

On 26/08/17 12:18, Simon Riggs wrote:

> On 25 August 2017 at 20:53, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
>>> I think this is a particularly old piece of code and we're lucky the
>>> default heuristics have served well for all this time because I doubt
>>> many people fiddle with these storage attributes. The time may have
>>> come to come up with a better UI for the storage attributes because
>>> people are doing new things (like json) and wanting more control over
>>> this heuristic.
>> Yeah, I could get behind a basic rethinking of the tuptoaster control
>> knobs. I'm just not in love with Simon's specific proposal, especially
>> not if we can't think of a better name for it than "MAINU".
> Extended/External would be just fine if you could set the toast
> target, so I think a better suggestion would be to make "toast_target"
> a per-attribute option .
>

+1, have thought about this myself previously....thank you for bringing
it up!

regards

Mark