Re: Vertical Partitioning with TOAST

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:15:46PM +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Also getting rid of toast index and start using ctids directly would be
> a big bonus.
>
> When using direct ctids we could use either ctid chains or some sort of
> skiplist for access to N-th TOAST chunk.

I suppose this would mean that you couldn't use vacuum on the toast
table anymore. Or teach vacuum that everytime it moves a tuple it needs
to update the original table (sequential scan). What exactly are you
trying to save here?

Have a nice day,
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