Re: [PATCH][PROPOSAL] Refuse setting toast.* reloptions when TOASTtable does not exist

On 1/18/18 18:42, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:50 PM, Nikolay Shaplov <dhyan@nataraj.su> wrote:
>>> This patch raises error if user tries o set or change toast.* option for a
>>> table that does not have a TOST relation.

> There might be a case for raising a warning in this situation,
> but I would disagree with making it a hard error in any case.
> All that's going to accomplish is to break people's scripts and
> get them mad at you.

It might also be useful to set these reloptions before you add a new
column to a table.

So I think this change is not desirable.

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