Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Well, maybe the right answer is to address that. It's clear to me >> why that would happen if we store these things as reloptions on the >> toast table, but can't they be stored on the parent table?
> Actually, Nikolay provided a possible solution: if you execute ALTER > TABLE SET (toast.foobar = xyz), and a toast table doesn't exist, create > one at that point. That adds a lot of overhead if you never actually need the toast table. Still, maybe it's an appropriate amount of effort compared to the size of the use-case for this. regards, tom lane