Re: Support for 8-byte TOAST values (aka the TOAST infinite loop problem)

Hi Michael,

I'm currently debugging POC direct tids TOAST patch (on top of your branch),
will mail it in a day or two.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 09:01:28AM +0300, Nikita Malakhov wrote:
> > Cool, toast tables are subject to bloating in update-heavy scenarios
> > and it's a big problem in production systems, it seems there is a
> promising
> > way to solve it once and for all!
> >
> > Have to mention though that we encountered issues in logical replication
> > when we made toast values updatable.
> >
> > Also researching direct tids implementation.
>
> I would be curious to see if the refactoring done on this thread would
> be useful in the scope of what you are trying to do. I'd suggest
> dropping that on a different thread, though, if you finish with a
> patch or something worth looking at for others.
> --
> Michael
>

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