On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:01:26PM -0400, harrold@sage.che.pitt.edu wrote:
> i've used postgresql for a while and i have been waiting for 7.1. now that
> school is out i have time to mess around with it a bit. after i installed
> it i started poking at the docs, but i havent found an example of how
> toast is implemented. could someone point me to an example? also would
> anyone care to comment on effectively using toast with php?
Do you mean source-code level implementation (i.e. changes to Postgres
internals), or the user-level stuff you need to know (i.e. how to use
the 'TOAST' feature in your apps).
If the former, the source code, I guess. -HACKERS would be a better
list to ask on.
If the later, you don't need to know anything. Just use a 'TEXT' storage
type and Postgres will let you store as much as you want in there
(I think there is still a 1GB/row limit, but that doesn't include the
automatic compression TOAST does).
So as a 'normal' developer, you don't need to worry about it, the
8K limit has just gone away.
As for PHP, TOAST really doesn't have anything to do with it.
Cheers,
Neil