Re: [HACKERS] Arbitrary tuple size

> >If we get wide tuples, we could just throw all large objects into one
> >table, and have an on it.  We can then vacuum it to compact space, etc.
> 
> I thought about that too. But if a table contains lots of LOs,
> scanning of it will take for a long time. On the otherhand, if LOs are
> stored outside the table, scanning time will be shorter as long as we
> don't need to read the content of each LO type field.

Use an index to get to the LO's in the table.

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