On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 12:06 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > This is relevant to my little project to make the TOAST logic reusable > > by other AMs, because the comments in tableam.h suggest you can only > > complete a speculative insertion if you've previously performed one. > > If we allow any AM to be used to implement a TOAST table, then it > > needs to be documented that such AMs have to cope with this kind of > > case. > > Hm - you're thinking of making the case of toast AM and main AM being > different working? I'm not sure I'd otherwise expect to again go through > the AM, although I'm not sure about that.
I was, but I think we have the same requirement even if we don't, because detoasting a datum from anywhere goes through a common code path. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
