On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Dimitri Fontaine <dfonta...@hi-media.com> wrote: > Hi, excuse the quoting style... and the intrepid nature of the following > content... > > -- > dim > > Le 1 nov. 2009 à 13:43, Greg Stark <gsst...@mit.edu> a écrit : >> >> We could have a column for all booleans, a column for all integers, >> etc. but that's not really any more normalized than having a single >> column for all the types with a rule for how to marshal each value >> type. > > Thé other day, on IRC, someone wanted a dynamic table accepting value in > whichever column you name. That would probably mean having a special INSERT > INTO which ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN ... for you. > > Maybe INSERT INTO ... WITH ADD COLUMN OPTION; > > This sure looks suspicious, but the asking came from another product and it > seems that could help here too. Oh and you get text columns I guess, by > default...
If you want to start a discussion about a topic that is completely unrelated to this one, then please start a new thread. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
