On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 09:14:18AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> But I can see that a lot of people might not be familiar with that usage,
> so I've got no objections to rewriting it more clearly --- any
> suggestions?
It has been suggested upthread to use "in the table rows themselves",
which does not sound bad to me. So that would give, quoting the whole
portion:
A table that has columns with potentially large entries will have an
associated <firstterm>TOAST</firstterm> table, which is used for
out-of-line storage of
-field values that are too large to keep in the table rows properly.
+field values that are too large to keep in the table rows themselves.
<structname>pg_class</structname>.<structfield>reltoastrelid</structfield>
links from a table to
its <acronym>TOAST</acronym> table, if any.
Now I cannot really stand as somebody able to decide the right thing on
this thread, proofs present on the table ;)
--
Michael
