Re: Toasted table not deleted when no out of line columns left

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Toasted table not deleted when no out of line columns left
Date: 2008-09-22 00:09:02
Message-ID: 16390.1222042142@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?=" <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
>> ... And implementing it would require introducing weird
>> corner cases into the tuple toaster, because it might now come across
>> TOAST pointers that point to a no-longer-existent table, and have to
>> consider that to be a no-op instead of an error condition.

> we will compile a patch within the next days to cover this case.

I'm not sure which part of "no" you didn't understand, but: I do not
believe this is worth making the toast code less robust for.

regards, tom lane

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