Re: MAIN, Uncompressed?

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 .

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