On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > But how often do those really come up? And do you really save that > much? The table still has to be locked against other users, so you're > still down, and you're still doing all the reads and computation. I > don't deny that saving the writes is worth something; I just don't agree > that it's worth the development and maintenance effort that such a wart > is going to cost us. User-exposed features are *expensive*.
I would think that text -> [something that's still a varlena but with tighter validation] would be quite common. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
