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From: Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>
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Chris Bitmead wrote:
> 
> Jan Wieck wrote:
> 
> >     Toast  tables  aren't  automatically   created   for   system
> >     catalogs.  Thus I'll add
> >
> >         ALTER TABLE pg_rewrite CREATE TOAST TABLE
> >
> >     to  initdb.  So we'll get unlimited view complexity for free.
> >     As soon as  arrays  are  toastable,  we  might  want  to  add
> >     pg_class because of relacl too.
> 
> Why would we want system catalogs toastable?

I assume this will allow for Views with large rewrite rules which
currently are limited in size.

Mike Mascari