On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:57:31PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Le Tuesday 05 February 2008 22:35:11 Tom Lane, vous avez écrit :
> >>> The reason there isn't one is it doesn't need one; it's an
> >>> implementation detail not a user-visible feature. ,
>
> > Although it is an implementation detail it is certainly a very
> > user-visible detail. It can and will affect how people design their
> > databases to take advantage of the implementation detail.
>
> We have no user-facing documentation on TOAST, either, which would seem
> to me to be at least as much of a candidate for people to custom-design
> their databases around. In practice I don't think anyone does.
Uh... http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/storage-toast.html
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