| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: storing TZ along timestamps |
| Date: | 2011-07-22 15:51:03 |
| Message-ID: | 1311349760-sup-7761@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of vie jul 22 11:33:09 -0400 2011:
> This problem reminds me a great deal of the problems associated with
> managing security labels for SE-Linux. There aren't that many
> distinct values, so ideally it would be nice to store an OID -> string
> mapping somewhere and just store the OIDs in the main table. But a
> new security label can appear at any time, and it doesn't work to have
> the transaction that discovers it do the insert into the mapping
> table. Time zones have the same problem, more or less. Now, maybe if
> we had non-transactional tables like Alvaro keeps muttering about...
Oh, I wasn't relating these problems to non transactional tables ...
Hmm.
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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