On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:43:53PM +0100, PFC wrote: > > >Aren't you going to a lot of work to reinvent something that TOAST > >already does for you? (At least, in the cases where the text fields > >are wide enough that it really matters.) > > I know. But I have several text fields in the 20 to 200 characters, > which is too small for toast, but large enough to make up about 90% of the > table size, which makes it problematic RAM-wise, especially since it's > gonna grow. Now, if I had 1 big text field, it would be TOASTed and I > would be happy ;) Cases like this are why I really wish we had the ability to specify something other than BLKSZ/4 as when to trigger TOAST. In many cases the text field is seldom refered to, so getting it out of the main heap is a big win. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
