Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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).
> 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. Ok, I'll consult the ALTER DATABASE SET codes. Storing in arrays might make it difficult to retrieve relations that match conditions specified by clients. However, I think such queirs are not used so many times. And if necessary, we can provide a helper function to extract a value from an array, like "valueof(reloptions, 'fillfactor') > 90" --- ITAGAKI Takahiro NTT Open Source Software Center ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
