On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:13:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > I confess that I'm a bit mystified about the design of the > > reloptions stuff. It seems kind of odd to store structured data as > > text[]; it's kind of the opposite of what I would normally > > recommend as good database design. > > It's definitely a bit EAV-ish :-(. But I don't see any particularly > easy way to modify it to store bool/int/float parameters in their > native types; do you?
More columns, each of the correct type, with the table constraint that at most one may be populated is how I handle stuff like that. Cheers David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
