Re: TOAST (was: BLOB)

Tom Lane wrote:

> I'd like to think that we can fold the TOAST support into the
> argument-access macros that I plan to be defining for the fmgr rewrite.
> See previous rants on this subject, eg 14-Jun-99, 23-Oct-99 (in
> pgsql-hackers archives).

So we need to fold the VARATT_... macro's I'm using now into
the FMGR_... macros. Or define the macro's you want now.

> Net result for user-defined-datatype authors will be "if you revise
> your routines, they will be easier to read, more portable, and will
> support TOASTed values. If you don't, they'll still work about as
> well (or poorly) as they did before."

Sorry, but that ain't true. Making an existing type toastable
means that all functions, receiving that type need to be
revised.

Jan

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