On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> I brought it up once and Tom answered that TOAST tables are not
> transaction aware, so you can't update just some parts of toasted
> entities - you must always write the whole fields. So this will not be
> just an api change.
Yes, the blocks (or what one selects to work with) in a toasted field have
to have transaction stuff stored, just like tuples. That is clear if
different transactions shall have different views of the "file".
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/Dennis