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