Re: Are there performance advantages in storing bulky field in separate table?

Cheers Tom,

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Ian Mayo <ianmayo@tesco.net> writes:
>> [snip]
> No.  You'd basically be manually reinventing the TOAST mechanism;
> or the large object mechanism, if you choose to store the blob
> as a large object rather than a plain bytea field.  Either way,
> it won't physically be in the same table as the main row data.

fine, that keeps the design simpler

> If you're curious, this goes into some of the gory details:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/storage-toast.html

Oooh, no, much too gory for me.

>                        regards, tom lane

thanks again.

One more thing:  hey, did you hear?  I just got some advice from Tom Lane!

Ian