Re: Toast space grows

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Pavel Rotek wrote:
> well, this will be the main problem... But... do uncomitted trasactions
> affect toast space?


I think the demonstrated answer to this is yes.


> (begin tx, load previous log, do business action, append new log, flush, do
> business action, append new log, flush, ... do business action, append new
> log, flush, commit tx).


If all you're doing is appending to the end of the log, why don't you make
each "append" a new row in a table. Instead of building massive rows, use
the database for what it was designed for, and have many smaller
independent rows.

Matthew

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