Re: [GENERAL] TOAST not working

["Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 05:10:06PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when listman(at)elkenserver(dot)net (list_man) would write:
> > Can someone tell me if I have to 'enable' TOAST on columns to have  it
> > kick in. According to my research, numeric data types are toastable.
> 
> TOAST is only used on individual columns that exceed 8K in size.
> 
> The only way you'll be TOASTing numeric columns is if they are
> individually defined to occupy > 8192 bytes.

Actually, it's BLCKSZ/4. From
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/storage-toast.html:

"The TOAST code is triggered only when a row value to be stored in a
table is wider than BLCKSZ/4 bytes (normally 2Kb)."

BTW, 'row value' seems a bit prone to confusion (could be interpreted as
the row itself). It'd probably be better to say 'field'. Barring
objections, I'll submit a patch.
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