On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:57:31PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "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. Uh... http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/storage-toast.html -- Decibel!, aka Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828
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