On 3/9/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com> writes:
> >>> make it happy by inserting a dummy row into the toast table (chunk ID
> >>> as specified in the error, chunk sequence 0, any old data value).
>
> > Any attempt to touch the toast table gives me:
> > ERROR: cannot change TOAST relation "pg_toast_17410"
>
> Ugh. Maybe we should allow superusers to do that? Or is it too much of
> a foot-gun?
+1 on allowing superusers to do that. I recently needed it.
Especially cool would be if i could simply insert untoasted
values there, so i can put some fake values there and detect them
later. (As I cannot query 'what table row has toast_oid')
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marko