Re: ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN fast default - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN fast default
Date
Msg-id 10938.1519150050@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN fast default  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
Responses Re: ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN fast default  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
List pgsql-hackers
... btw, I've not read this patch in any detail, but the recent thread
about toast tables for system catalogs prompts me to wonder what happens
if a "fast default" value is large enough to require out-of-line toasting.

I can easily think of problems that will ensue if we try to support that
case, because right now the toast mechanisms assume that OOL toasted
values can only be referenced from the associated table.

            regards, tom lane


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Andres Freund
Date:
Subject: Re: Option to ensure monotonic timestamps
Next
From: Patrick Krecker
Date:
Subject: Re: Option to ensure monotonic timestamps