Re: update on TOAST status

Jeffery Collins <collins@onyx-technologies.com>

From: Jeffery Collins <collins@onyx-technologies.com>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-07-05T16:52:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Jan Wieck wrote:

> FYI,
>
>     For now, "lztext" is the  only  test  candidate  datatype  to
>     invoke  the  toaster.  It can hold up to multi-megabytes now.
>     But be warned, this datatype will disappear as soon as "text"
>     is toastable.
>

I have not been following the TOAST discussion, but why would lztext
disappear?  It seems like a useful datatype independent of TOAST or not
TOAST?

Jeff