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On 16.12.2010 22:13, Robert Haas wrote:
> So how bad would it be if we committed this new format without support
> for splitting large relations into multiple files, or with some stub
> support that never actually gets used, and fixed this later?  Because
> this is starting to sound like a bigger project than I think we ought
> to be requiring for this patch.

Would probably be fine, as long as we don't paint ourselves in the corner.

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