AW: update on TOAST status'

Zeugswetter Andreas SB <zeugswettera@wien.spardat.at>

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>
To: "'Jan Wieck'" <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-07-12T10:32:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > I don't like that --- seems it would put a definite crimp in the
> > whole point of TOAST, which is not to have arbitrary limits on field
> > sizes.
> 
>     If we can solve it, let's do so. If we cannot, let's restrict
>     it for 7.1.

How are you doing the index toasting currently ? Is it on the same 
line as table toasting ? That is: toast some index column values if the key 
exceeds 2k ?

Andreas