Re: RFC: Moving specific attributes from pg_attribute column into attoptions

2022-08-18 Thread Nikita Malakhov
Hi hackers! Tom, thank you for your feedback! We thought about this because it already seems that custom Toasters could have a bunch of options, so we already thinking how to store them. I'll check if we can implement storing Toaster options in PG_ATTRDEF. Andres Freund complained that 'atttoast

Re: RFC: Moving specific attributes from pg_attribute column into attoptions

2022-08-17 Thread Tom Lane
Nikita Malakhov writes: > We already had some thoughts on storing, let's call them "optional" > attributes into 'attoptions' instead of extending the PG_ATTRIBUTE > table, and here came feedback from Andres Freund with a remark that > we're increasing the largest catalog table. So we decided to pr

RFC: Moving specific attributes from pg_attribute column into attoptions

2022-08-17 Thread Nikita Malakhov
Hi hackers! While working on Pluggable TOAST we extended the PG_ATTRIBUTE table with a new column 'atttoaster'. But is is obvious that this column is related to tables, columns and datatypes only, and is not needed for other attributes. You can find full discussion on Pluggable TOAST here https://