| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: per-tablespace random_page_cost/seq_page_cost |
| Date: | 2009-10-28 01:20:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20091028012054.GA3860@fetter.org |
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:13:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I confess that I'm a bit mystified about the design of the
> > reloptions stuff. It seems kind of odd to store structured data as
> > text[]; it's kind of the opposite of what I would normally
> > recommend as good database design.
>
> It's definitely a bit EAV-ish :-(. But I don't see any particularly
> easy way to modify it to store bool/int/float parameters in their
> native types; do you?
More columns, each of the correct type, with the table constraint that
at most one may be populated is how I handle stuff like that.
Cheers
David.
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