Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I beleive you can set it to EXTERNAL, which it will always toast. I don't think that will help; if the overall row size is below the threshold, the code is not going to pick it apart to see if anything is saying "toast me anyway!". And it shouldn't do so IMHO; the overall cost in cycles would be catastrophic, because most tables aren't going to have such columns. There was discussion just yesterday of making the TOAST thresholds more configurable, but I didn't see anyone stepping up with a concrete proposal (much less volunteering to create a patch). regards, tom lane
