Re: 2nd update on TOAST

At 17:18 5/07/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>JanWieck@t-online.de (Jan Wieck) writes:
>>     size to initdb and the problems started. I can create a table
>>     with  500+  attributes.  Also  I can create a view on it (the
>>     rules size is 170K - whow). Anything works pretty well,  just
>>     a pg_dump output is garbage.
>
>Are you using current sources?  Bruce committed Philip Warner's
>pg_dump rewrite a day or so ago (which I thought was way premature,
>but anyway...).  Just want to know which pg_dump we're talking about.

It's good that any bugs had a chnace to come out ASAP.

However, I'd be interested to know what actually happens: I do recall that
pg_dump (both versions) have seomething like '#define COPY_BUFFER_SIZE
8192'; if I were to start looking, that's where I'd go first.


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