Re: Toasting more system-table columns

Mark Hollomon <mhh@nortelnetworks.com>

From: "Mark Hollomon" <mhh@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2000-08-03T20:23:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> "Mark Hollomon" <mhh@nortelnetworks.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> pg_statistic to cope with long
> >> min/max/common values (not sure about this).
> 
> > I would think pg_statistic would be a 'must'.
> 
> Well, it's not a "must" because the code copes fine now (there's a test
> in there that simply drops pg_statistic tuples that won't fit).

Oh, well of course. Even pre-toast len(min)+len(max)+len(common) > 8K
was possible.


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