Re: [HACKERS] LONG vs. Toaster

> Well,
>
> AFAIK we had a consensus on making "try to compress
> attributes before moving off" a runtime, per column
> configuration option. And that's what I'm after.
>
> This might interfere with the LZTEXT data type as is. Since
> this new data type isn't released yet, I'll have to remove it
> again before freeze. The compressor/decompressor will become
> part of the toaster.
>
> Needs to revert the changes to pg_rewrite too, so the next
> release will NOT gain any bigger rules. But to release it and
> later fight problems that I already see, only to enable
> bigger rules right now, is IMHO the wrong decision.

Agreed. There are over five weeks left. Let's see what happens as we
get closer.

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