"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Le Tuesday 05 February 2008 22:35:11 Tom Lane, vous avez écrit : >>> The reason there isn't one is it doesn't need one; it's an >>> implementation detail not a user-visible feature. , > Although it is an implementation detail it is certainly a very > user-visible detail. It can and will affect how people design their > databases to take advantage of the implementation detail. We have no user-facing documentation on TOAST, either, which would seem to me to be at least as much of a candidate for people to custom-design their databases around. In practice I don't think anyone does. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly