Re: BUG #16722: PG hanging on COPY when table has close to 2^32 toasts in the table.

Hi,

On 2020-11-18 23:12:10 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> That said, I'd really prefer to see *some* kind of counter that could
> get people noticing this a bit earlier, rather than just bugging them
> in the logfile once it's gone over a threshold.  A statistics counter
> maybe, but I guess that'd have to be tracked at a per-table level to
> be really useful, which would make it potentially fairly expensive to
> keep around...

I'd rather spend effort to solve the underlying issue. It's a bit more
work, but not crazily so, I think. Even the pg_upgrade pieces aren't
that hard to solve.

Greetings,

Andres Freund