Re: TOAST

From: "Poul L(dot) Christiansen" <poulc(at)cs(dot)auc(dot)dk>
To: David Wheeler <David(at)Wheeler(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TOAST
Date: 2001-02-09 06:49:11
Message-ID: 3A8392E7.B741E6A@cs.auc.dk
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Hi

http://www.postgresql.org/projects/devel-toast.html

The TOAST project transparently allows you to store text (I don't know about
BLOB's) with size >8KB. AFAIK there is no length limit with TOAST.

HTH,
Poul L. Christiansen

David Wheeler wrote:

> Greetings All,
>
> I've seem some references to TOAST in 7.1. Can anyone tell me what it is
> and/or where I can read all about it and how it will solve all my problems
> using BLOBs with PostgreSQL?
>
> Thanks!
>
> David

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