Well, TOAST should be fairly transparent to users I believe.  TOAST
values should be compressed or stored separately from the rest of
the row's data to get around the 8-32k block size.

There's also the large object support which is something else entirely.

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Lee Russell wrote:

> hi,
> 
> I an using postgresql-7.1beta4 and am trying to use the large text fields.
> 
> I have heard of TOAST. There is little documentation.
> 
> I found one section about creating a data type,
> 
> then creating two functions to convert the data types.
> 
> Is this how TOAST is implemented?
> 
> Am I on the right track?. If so, what do
> 
> the conversion functions look like. I am using plpgsql.


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