Re: Pluggable toaster

From: Nikita Malakhov <hukutoc(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jacob Champion <jchampion(at)timescale(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Teodor Sigaev <teodor(at)sigaev(dot)ru>
Subject: Re: Pluggable toaster
Date: 2023-02-06 20:21:45
Message-ID: CAN-LCVOpseYfhfgr5MB=OHcCWjOpLk8P56gXxJkyRpU3CB11CQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

It'll be great to see more opinions on the approach as a whole.

>The problem that I see being raised here, is that there was little
>discussion and no observed community consensus about the design of
>this complex feature *before* this patch with high complexity was
>provided.
>The next action that was requested is to take a step back and decide
>how we would want to implement type-aware TOASTing (and the associated
>patch compression dictionaries) *before* we look into the type-aware
>toasting.

We decided to put this improvement as a patch because we thought
that the most complex and questionable part would be the TOAST
implementations (the Toasters) itself, and the Pluggable TOAST is
just a tool to make plugging different TOAST implementations clean
and simple.

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Nikita Malakhov
Postgres Professional
https://postgrespro.ru/

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