Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 13:33 +0900, ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote: >> 2. Store the structures in AM's meta page. But heaps don't have meta pages.
> But perhaps they should? That sounds very similar to the idea of > non-transactional pg_class data. The disadvantage of putting this stuff into metapages is that then you need some entirely new protocol for letting clients get at it (and pg_dump, for one, needs to). I agree with putting it in a catalog. An opaque bytea won't do though. What I'd suggest is something real close to the format used for GUC parameters in ALTER DATABASE SET and ALTER USER SET, ie, pairs of keyword/value strings. This way pg_dump doesn't need very much smarts about what the values are that it's dumping. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org