Re: ToDo List Item - System Table Index Clustering

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: saiken <saiken(at)quietlycompetent(dot)com>, Simone Aiken <saiken(at)ulfheim(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ToDo List Item - System Table Index Clustering
Date: 2011-01-19 19:25:59
Message-ID: 1295465052-sup-6869@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié ene 19 15:25:00 -0300 2011:

> Oh, I see. I don't think we want to go there. We'd need some kind of
> system for keeping the two places in sync.

Maybe autogenerate both the .sgml and the postgres.description files
from a single source.

> And there'd be no easy way
> to upgrade the in-database descriptions when we upgraded to a newer
> minor release, supposing they'd changed in the meantime.

I wouldn't worry about this issue. We don't do many catalog changes in
minor releases anyway.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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