Re: Pluggable toaster - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nikita Malakhov
Subject Re: Pluggable toaster
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Msg-id CAN-LCVOpseYfhfgr5MB=OHcCWjOpLk8P56gXxJkyRpU3CB11CQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Pluggable toaster  (Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

It'll be great to see more opinions on the approach as a whole.

>The problem that I see being raised here, is that there was little
>discussion and no observed community consensus about the design of
>this complex feature *before* this patch with high complexity was
>provided.
>The next action that was requested is to take a step back and decide
>how we would want to implement type-aware TOASTing (and the associated
>patch compression dictionaries) *before* we look into the type-aware
>toasting.

We decided to put this improvement as a patch because we thought
that the most complex and questionable part would be the TOAST
implementations (the Toasters) itself, and the Pluggable TOAST is 
just a tool to make plugging different TOAST implementations clean
and simple.

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Nikita Malakhov
Postgres Professional 

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