Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>,
pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org,
ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Simon Riggs wrote:
> If you really can't see a use for this, OK, then: Please can you put in
> a plugin API for user defined reloptions as well as what you are
> proposing. We discussed this before in late July/early Aug on thread
> "Uncopied parameters..."
Hmm, I was just looking at the CREATE TABLE LIKE code yesterday; I
didn't remember that discussion. I'll have a more detailed look.
> > I'm now playing with adding "namespaces" to the options, but that's for
> > handling options for toast tables. I'm not really sure how would it
> > work for regular options.
>
> toast.option_x
> btree.option_y
> autovacuum.option_z
autovacuum as a namespace doesn't work, because we need to have
autovacuum options for toast too. If we went down this route we would
need to have two name levels.
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