Re: Patch status for reducing de-TOAST overhead?

"Mark Cave-Ayland" <mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk> writes:
> I'm just following up on the patch created here by Tom to aid with
> repeated de-TOASTing attempts:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg01096.php

> Given the performance report from Jeff
> (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-08/msg01178.php), is
> there still scope for getting something like this in 8.4 - or this patch
> still far shy of anything ready for a commit fest?

I'm afraid nothing's likely to get done about that for 8.4 ... the
existing patch doesn't seem satisfactory enough to apply, and we're
running out of time to do anything more extensive.
        regards, tom lane