Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Possibly we should be using a less chintzy (ie slower) test there,
>> but a change like this would inevitably change the outputs anyway.
> OK. So passing the regression tests with different values of
> TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD is not a goal? I wasn't sure about that, but if
> the answer is "no, that's not a goal", that's fine.
For that particular test, I really fail to see how we could make the
output entirely independent of the number of tuples stored per page.
By design, that tablesample method is sensitive to where the page
boundaries are.
regards, tom lane
