Re: [PATCH] Extending pg_class info + more flexible TOAST chunk size

From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extending pg_class info + more flexible TOAST chunk size
Date: 2008-10-13 13:39:58
Message-ID: 48F34FAE.9020408@sun.com
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Heikki Linnakangas napsal(a):

>
> It occurs to me that instead of storing a chunk id, we could store a
> byte offset of the chunk. That would allow random access even if every
> chunk was of different size. You probably don't want any new changes you
> need to deal with in the upgrade, though :-).

Yes, no change please :-)

Zdenek

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