On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 05:10:06PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote: > Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when listman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (list_man) would write: > > Can someone tell me if I have to 'enable' TOAST on columns to have it > > kick in. According to my research, numeric data types are toastable. > > TOAST is only used on individual columns that exceed 8K in size. > > The only way you'll be TOASTing numeric columns is if they are > individually defined to occupy > 8192 bytes. Actually, it's BLCKSZ/4. From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/storage-toast.html: "The TOAST code is triggered only when a row value to be stored in a table is wider than BLCKSZ/4 bytes (normally 2Kb)." BTW, 'row value' seems a bit prone to confusion (could be interpreted as the row itself). It'd probably be better to say 'field'. Barring objections, I'll submit a patch. -- 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
