Re: Add support for logging the current role

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add support for logging the current role
Date: 2011-01-14 22:44:25
Message-ID: 13191.1295045065@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> writes:
> If there is going to be any change, how about using fixed columns (an
> possibly allowing them to be empty for stuff that's expensive to
> create/write), but adding a 1st column that contains a "version"
> identifyer. And to make it easy, maybe the PG major version as the
> version value.

Seems like that just adds even more overhead, without really solving any
of the problems we're concerned about. Code consuming the CSV log would
still need a-priori knowledge of what columns to expect.

regards, tom lane

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