On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Pavel Rotek wrote: > well, this will be the main problem... But... do uncomitted trasactions > affect toast space?
I think the demonstrated answer to this is yes.
> (begin tx, load previous log, do business action, append new log, flush, do > business action, append new log, flush, ... do business action, append new > log, flush, commit tx).
If all you're doing is appending to the end of the log, why don't you make each "append" a new row in a table. Instead of building massive rows, use the database for what it was designed for, and have many smaller independent rows.
Matthew
Because I modify existing application, where logic is already given :-(. If no other way exists, i'll have to do refactoring...
-- "To err is human; to really louse things up requires root privileges." -- Alexander Pope, slightly paraphrased
