Re: Toasted table not deleted when no out of line columns left - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Toasted table not deleted when no out of line columns left
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Msg-id 16390.1222042142@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Toasted table not deleted when no out of line columns left  ("Hans-Jürgen Schönig" <hs@cybertec.at>)
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"Hans-Jürgen Schönig" <hs@cybertec.at> writes:
>> ...  And implementing it would require introducing weird
>> corner cases into the tuple toaster, because it might now come across
>> TOAST pointers that point to a no-longer-existent table, and have to
>> consider that to be a no-op instead of an error condition.

> we will compile a patch within the next days to cover this case.

I'm not sure which part of "no" you didn't understand, but: I do not
believe this is worth making the toast code less robust for.
        regards, tom lane


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