Re: problems with toast.* reloptions

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2026-05-01T21:41:12Z
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  1. Avoid scribbling of VACUUM options

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On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 11:38:41AM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> Yeah, I'm tempted to even ask how folks feel about removing the toast.*
> reloptions.  Maybe there's some simple cases that work well enough, but
> AFAICT any moderately-complicated setup basically doesn't work at all.  In
> any case, writing out this patch set has got me on the fix-on-HEAD-only
> bandwagon.

For the sake of discussion, I wrote a patch for this.  I suggested removing
toast.* relopts to some colleagues recently, and nobody was aware of much
(if any) use in the field.  So maybe this isn't totally
out-of-the-question...

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nathan