Re: How does TOAST compare to other databases' mechanisms?

At 10:12 9/10/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>There is a provision to discourage the toaster from even trying to
>compress a particular column --- see the attstorage column in
>pg_attribute.  At the moment there's no user interface for that :-(
>so you'd have to reach in with a manual "UPDATE pg_attribute" to
>change it from the default value.  Someone should work on adding an
>ALTER command to change it in a more user-friendly fashion.
>

If I wanted to do this, how long do you think it would take (given that I
have not done anything similar so far)?





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