Re: Toasted table not deleted when no out of line columns left

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

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <hs@cybertec.at>
Cc: Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb@cybertec.at>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2008-09-22T00:09:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?=" <hs@cybertec.at> writes:
>> ...  And implementing it would require introducing weird
>> corner cases into the tuple toaster, because it might now come across
>> TOAST pointers that point to a no-longer-existent table, and have to
>> consider that to be a no-op instead of an error condition.

> we will compile a patch within the next days to cover this case.

I'm not sure which part of "no" you didn't understand, but: I do not
believe this is worth making the toast code less robust for.

			regards, tom lane