On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:01:26PM -0400, harrold@sage.che.pitt.edu wrote:
i've used postgresql for a while and i have been waiting for 7.1. now that
school is out i have time to mess around with it a bit. after i installed
it i started poking at the docs, but i havent found an example of how
toast is implemented. could someone point me to an example? also would
anyone care to comment on effectively using toast with php?
Do you mean source-code level implementation (i.e. changes to Postgres
internals), or the user-level stuff you need to know (i.e. how to use
the 'TOAST' feature in your apps).
If the former, the source code, I guess. -HACKERS would be a better
list to ask on.
If the later, you don't need to know anything. Just use a 'TEXT' storage
type and Postgres will let you store as much as you want in there
(I think there is still a 1GB/row limit, but that doesn't include the
automatic compression TOAST does).
So as a 'normal' developer, you don't need to worry about it, the
8K limit has just gone away.
As for PHP, TOAST really doesn't have anything to do with it.
Cheers,
Neil
