Re: Proposal: move column defaults into pg_attribute along with attacl

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>
Cc: Markus Wanner <markus(dot)wanner(at)programmfabrik(dot)de>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposal: move column defaults into pg_attribute along with attacl
Date: 2008-09-29 09:38:57
Message-ID: 20080929093857.GB28076@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Markus Wanner (markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch) wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
> > * Markus Wanner (markus(dot)wanner(at)programmfabrik(dot)de) wrote:
> >> What does the subobject column for pg_shdepend buy us?
> >
> > Tracking column-level ACL dependencies rather than having those
> > dependencies only be at the table-level. This complicates
> > pg_shdepend some, but simplifies the dependency handling in the
> > ACL area and in handling table/column drops.
>
> With a separate table? Or as part of pg_attribute (which can handle NULL
> and VARLENA attributes now?)

As part of pg_attribute.. Having a seperate table would be an
alternative to adding a column to pg_shdepend.

Stephen

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