Re: Create TOAST table only if AM needs

From: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Ashwin Agrawal <aagrawal(at)pivotal(dot)io>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Create TOAST table only if AM needs
Date: 2019-05-19 14:03:23
Message-ID: CAM-w4HNrwi51y_a7EvHVKzKY_6b8Ug9LdUaRY8KEjcRNZuvMzA@mail.gmail.com
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Just throwing this out there.... Perhaps we should just disable toasting
for non-heap tables entirely for now?

That way at least people can use it and storage plugins just have to be
able to deal with large datums in their own (or throw errors).

On Fri., May 17, 2019, 5:56 p.m. Ashwin Agrawal, <aagrawal(at)pivotal(dot)io>
wrote:

> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 2:42 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> In any case, it bears saying that
>> tableam is a remarkable accomplishment regardless of whatever
>> shortcomings it has in this area or elsewhere.
>>
>
> Big +1 to this.
>

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