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Re: Significantly larger toast tables on 8.4?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-01-03T01:36:16Z
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"Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl> writes:
> - I currently have difficulty imagining applications that actually do
>   lots of substring extractions from large compressible fields.

The code that's in there to make this happen was written by people who
needed the feature.  They're going to be upset with you if you propose
disabling it.

			regards, tom lane