Re: Efficient slicing/substring of TOAST values (for comment) - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Efficient slicing/substring of TOAST values (for comment)
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Msg-id 200111051611.fA5GBLe22267@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Efficient slicing/substring of TOAST values (for comment)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> John Gray <jgray@azuli.co.uk> writes:
> >> Some creative refactoring would help it out a lot.  Go for it, if
> >> you feel like doing that.
> >>
> > I've done a little tidying, repackaging of standard code etc. as a first
> > step. It hasn't made the file much shorter, but has made some of the
> > routines clearer where they share basically the same code for
> > inheritance and permissions checking.
>
> Great!  I'm afraid I just committed some fixes that will probably cause
> a merge conflict, but I trust it won't be too painful to resolve.
>
> > AS regards the ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN syntax for attstorage, should I
> > use keywords for the values or just char values 'e', 'x' etc ?
>
> I'd suggest keywords, namely the same ones used in CREATE TYPE for
> these storage options.

I assume this will be for 7.3?

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