Re: Toast rel options

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Toast rel options
Date: 2010-04-29 14:17:22
Message-ID: 20100429141722.GB3296@alvh.no-ip.org
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Simon Riggs wrote:

> Also, this seems not to work?
>
> postgres=# alter table test set (my.expectation = on);
> ERROR: unrecognized parameter namespace "my"
>
> I thought we had enabled custom table options in this release?
> Or was that deferred, or even rejected completely?

IIRC you can define your own parameter namespaces for access methods you
define, but you can't add namespaces to hardcoded AMs. Possibly not a
very useful definition (because you don't really define new AMs all that
frequently), but it covers what was needed at the time.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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