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Re: update on TOAST status

Chris <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>

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From: Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-07-06T00:02:27Z
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Jan Wieck wrote:

>     Toast  tables  aren't  automatically   created   for   system
>     catalogs.  Thus I'll add
> 
>         ALTER TABLE pg_rewrite CREATE TOAST TABLE
> 
>     to  initdb.  So we'll get unlimited view complexity for free.
>     As soon as  arrays  are  toastable,  we  might  want  to  add
>     pg_class because of relacl too.

Why would we want system catalogs toastable?