> > > Will anybody want to use this when TOAST comes to be?
> >
> > 1. There's no any TOAST at the moment.
>
> I wasn't implying the patch is bad. Only wondering out load if toast
> will be a super-set of large objects.
Not exactly.
> > 2. For really large objects TOAST will be really inefficient for quite small < 64K other
> > way around.
>
> Why will toast be inefficient for really large objects?
Because data is stored in relations, and there's extra overhead for managing them.
Just look on Jan's mail in [HACKERS] for better description of the difference.
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