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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: Scott Cain <cain@cshl.org>
Cc: PgSQL Performance ML <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] EXTERNAL storage and substring on long strings
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:00:21 -0400
Message-ID: <6311.1060884021@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> Doesn't look that unrealistic to me. A plain text based substring 
> function will reassemble the whole beast first before cutting out the 
> wanted part. His manually chunked version will read only those chunks 
> needed.

So does substr(), if applied to EXTERNAL (non-compressed) toasted text.
See John Gray's improvements a release or two back.

			regards, tom lane



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