Re: Performance impact of record sizes

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > And in talking to the questioner, I was wondering if we have this
> > auto-out-of-line TOAST description anywhere in the docs. If not, we
> > need to add that.
>
> Yes; I am not sure that that ever got into the main docs :-(.
> We were so tickled with the notion that you no longer needed to
> think about oversized fields, that we forgot that it ought to be
> documented anyhow.
>
> Jan's old TOAST project page,
> http://www.ca.postgresql.org/projects/devel-toast.html
> has some stuff that could be recycled into the manual, and I think
> we have done some good writeups in response to older questions in
> the mailing lists.

Yea, I will keep this email and merge something in.

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