Re: Much Ado About COUNT(*)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-01-13T03:50:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> I thought toast only handled having individual large columns. So if I have a
> 2kb text column it'll pull that out of the table for me. But if I have 20
> columns each of which have 100 bytes will it still help me? Will it kick in if
> I define a single column which stores a record type with 20 columns each of
> which have a 100 byte string?

Yes, and yes.

			regards, tom lane