Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> By 'in/out interface for TOAST columns' I thought this item dealt with
>> adding large object like functions to read/write/append to TOAST column
>> data. I know that has been talked about in the past on hackers. But I
>> don't see it on the todo list. Has that been done?
> Only large objects allow that kind of access. I don't think we will do
> that for TOAST columns.
Barry's right --- that *has* been talked about, and I thought the
consensus was that we needed such functions. You don't necessarily
want to read or write a multi-megabyte TOASTed value all in one go.
If it's not on TODO then it should be. (But I suspect if you check
the archives, you'll discover that this is exactly what the TODO
item was really about.)
regards, tom lane