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> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Added to Features:
> >
> > New lztext data type for compressed text fields
>
> I strongly suggest to not name this new feature. All the attempts to make
> it go away silently in 7.1 will get a blow in the face from this.
I already discovered that this ain't true.
At the time we feature TOAST, we remove LZTEXT and put in a type alias to TEXT. This way, during a dump/reload
upgrade from any non-toasted to a toasted release, the "backend" will take care for the silent conversion of table
schemas.We can keep this alias for a faily long time, so external schema scripts can be modified.
This way, all we have to mention is exactly the above, so schema writers take it onto their upgrade-checklist,
andthat no application query should ever use LZTEXT explicitly (like in casting expressions). They shall use TEXT
instead.
Jan
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