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From: Nikita Malakhov <[email protected]>
To: Matthias van de Meent <[email protected]>
Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: vignesh C <[email protected]>
Cc: Jacob Champion <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Stark <[email protected]>
Cc: Teodor Sigaev <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Pluggable toaster
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 23:21:45 +0300
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Hi,

It'll be great to see more opinions on the approach as a whole.

>The problem that I see being raised here, is that there was little
>discussion and no observed community consensus about the design of
>this complex feature *before* this patch with high complexity was
>provided.
>The next action that was requested is to take a step back and decide
>how we would want to implement type-aware TOASTing (and the associated
>patch compression dictionaries) *before* we look into the type-aware
>toasting.

We decided to put this improvement as a patch because we thought
that the most complex and questionable part would be the TOAST
implementations (the Toasters) itself, and the Pluggable TOAST is
just a tool to make plugging different TOAST implementations clean
and simple.

--
Nikita Malakhov
Postgres Professional
https://postgrespro.ru/


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