* Bruce Momjian (br...@momjian.us) wrote: > I am with Tom on this --- there is more wasted space in the 'name' > column pg_authid.rolname than by shoving 40 boolean values into a > bitmap.
I agree that we waste a lot of space in 'name' but I don't think there's an easy solution to that problem. This, on the other hand, seemed like a relatively minor change to an internal catalog definition. > Adding the complexity of a bitmap doesn't make sense here. I > also apologize for the late feedback. The complexity of the bitmap on the SQL side actually makes the code side cleaner. :/ It would be great to figure out a way to get feedback like this earlier on in the development. This patch has been floating around for quite a while, with intentional breaks for feedback taken prior to incremental improvements and documentation additions. Clearly that gets back to the discussion around the commitfest situation. > Offtopic, what I would really _love_ to see improved is our display of > object permissions: That's a whole different discussion and really belongs on a new thread. I'm certainly curious what ideas you have regarding how to fix this; it's not like Unix permission display is particularly elegant. Is there something you've seen that looks nicer while still conveying the necessary information in a relatively small amount of space? Thanks, Stephen
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