Re: problems with toast.* reloptions

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: problems with toast.* reloptions
Date: 2026-05-04 15:41:15
Message-ID: afi-G3xIntN-pUjR@nathan
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On Fri, May 01, 2026 at 04:41:12PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 11:38:41AM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> Yeah, I'm tempted to even ask how folks feel about removing the toast.*
>> reloptions. Maybe there's some simple cases that work well enough, but
>> AFAICT any moderately-complicated setup basically doesn't work at all. In
>> any case, writing out this patch set has got me on the fix-on-HEAD-only
>> bandwagon.
>
> For the sake of discussion, I wrote a patch for this. I suggested removing
> toast.* relopts to some colleagues recently, and nobody was aware of much
> (if any) use in the field. So maybe this isn't totally
> out-of-the-question...

Apparently I forgot to test it with injection points enabled. Here's a new
patch.

--
nathan

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