Sunday, September 21, 2008

Re: [HACKERS] Toasted table not deleted when no out of line columns left

"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?=" <hs@cybertec.at> writes:
>> ... And implementing it would require introducing weird
>> corner cases into the tuple toaster, because it might now come across
>> TOAST pointers that point to a no-longer-existent table, and have to
>> consider that to be a no-op instead of an error condition.

> we will compile a patch within the next days to cover this case.

I'm not sure which part of "no" you didn't understand, but: I do not
believe this is worth making the toast code less robust for.

regards, tom lane

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