Re: [PATCH] Infinite loop while acquiring new TOAST Oid

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2022-11-28 16:04:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> And I don't buy that either.  An extra 4 bytes with a 2K payload is not
>> "prohibitive", it's more like "down in the noise".

> The space usage for the the the toast relation + index itself is indeed
> irrelevant. Where it's not "down in the noise" is in struct varatt_external,
> i.e. references to external toast datums.

Ah, gotcha.  Yes, the size of varatt_external is a problem.

            regards, tom lane