Re: pgsql-server: Tablespaces.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql-server: Tablespaces.
Date: 2004-06-19 04:59:57
Message-ID: 9577.1087621197@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> Perhaps we should think about creating a shared version of
>> pg_description so we could have more reasonable support for comments
>> on shared objects. I'm not in a hurry for this but it would be a
>> reasonable TODO item.

> Just add a comment text column to the databases, users, groups and
> tablespaces tables. Then special case them in obj_description.

Hm ... seems like that requires more special cases, not fewer.
What I was imagining was the current database-local pg_description plus
a single shared table pg_shared_description. When you add more kinds of
shared objects (SQL roles maybe?) obj_description doesn't need to
change...

regards, tom lane

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