Re: Toast and slice of toast

On 2014-02-17 14:16:33 +1100, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Rémi Cura <remi.cura@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey Dear List,
> > could somebody point me to some ressources about getting only parts of
> > toasted data?
> >
> > I have a very big custom type and I would like to take blocks of it (like
> > byte A to B then byte C to D  then... ).
> >
> > I found a function in http://doxygen.postgresql.org/tuptoaster_8c.html#called toast_fetch_datum_slice, is it the
rightway to use it 
> > (a for loop and calling it several time?).
> >
>
> "pg_detoast_datum_slice" is the function which will solve your problem.

Note that you need to prevent your type/column from being compressed for
that being effective. Check the storage options for CREATE TABLE et al.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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