Re: Compressed TOAST Slicing

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Paul Ramsey <pramsey@cleverelephant.ca>, Regina Obe <r@pcorp.us>

Date: 2019-03-13T02:19:06Z

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Add support for partial TOAST decompression
- 4d0e994eed83 12.0 landed
Remove remaining hard-wired OID references in the initial catalog data.
- 3aa0395d4ed3 12.0 cited
Rephrase references to "time qualification".
- ebcc7bf949ba 12.0 cited

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 07:01:17PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> I don't think this is even close to popular enough to incur the
> maybe of a separate function / more complicated interface. By this
> logic we can change basically no APIs anymore. 

Well, if folks here think that it is not worth worrying about, I won't
cry on that either.  If only the original API is kept, could it just
be possible to make it extensible with some bits16 flags then?  Adding
only a boolean is not really appealing.
--
Michael